Judges 9:49 - Easy To Read Version

⁴⁹ So all those men cut branches and followed Abimelech. They piled the branches against the safest room [90] of the temple of the god El Berith. [91] Then they set the branches on fire and burned the people in the room. So about 1,000 men and women living near the Tower of Shechem died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ So each of the men cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold and set [the stronghold] on fire over the people in it, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ Each one of the men cut off a bundle as well and followed Abimelech. They piled them up against the side rooms and set fire to the side rooms above them. So all the people in the Tower of Shechem died too, about one thousand men and women.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ And so, eagerly cutting down branches from the trees, they followed their leader. And surrounding the fortified place, they set it on fire. And so it happened that, by smoke and fire, one thousand persons died, men and women together, the occupants of the tower of Shechem.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort they set it on fire. And so it came to pass that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the tower of Sichem.

Judges 9:49 Tagairtí Cros

Galatians 5:15

If you continue hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful! You will completely destroy each other.

James 3:16

Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there will be confusion and every kind of evil.

Judges 9:15

But the thornbush said to the trees, “If you really want to make me king over you, come and find shelter in my shade. But if you do not want to do this, then let fire come out of the thornbush. Let the fire burn even the cedar trees of Lebanon.”

Judges 9:20

But leaders of Shechem and house of Millo, [82] if you have not acted right, then I hope that Abimelech destroys you. And I hope that Abimelech is destroyed too!”

Judges 9:48

So Abimelech and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. [89] Abimelech took an axe and cut off some branches. He carried those branches on his shoulders. Then Abimelech said to the men with him, “Hurry! Do the same thing that I have done.”

Judges 9:50

Then Abimelech and his men went to the city of Thebez. Abimelech and his men captured that city.