Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
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Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
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Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
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Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field.
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Passages linked to Judges 9:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 1:11-16 If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.” My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path, for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
- Proverbs 4:16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- Romans 3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
- Job 24:14-17 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face. In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
- Psalms 36:4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 9:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and…
Jdg 9:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that [is] with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Ver. 32. Thou and the people that is with thee.] Those thou hast ready: lose not the present opportunity. In bello non datur bis errare, in war there is no use of after wise.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it shall be, that in the morning, as…
And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city,.... For being with his forces advanced near to it by a march in the night, he would be able by sunrising to attack the city before the inhabitants were up to defend it, and so surprise them:
and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee; that is, Gaul, and the men with him, as many as he upon a surprise can get together:
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thou mayest do to them as thou shalt find occasion; as the situation of things would direct him, and he, in his wisdom, and according to his ability, and as opportunity offered, would see plainly what was fit and right to be done; Zebul did not pretend to advise him further, but left the rest to his discretion, as things should appear to him.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32) Lie in wait in the field.—To surprise the…
(32) Lie in wait in the field.—To surprise the Shechemites when they went out to finish their vintage operations, which they would do securely under the protection of Gaal’s forces.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Zebul's messengers continue talking to Abimelech.
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Now
This does not mean "at this moment," but is used to draw attention to the important point that follows.
an ambush
"to hide and attack them suddenly"
do whatever you can to them
This means that they can do what they want to destroy the followers of Gaal.
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