Discovery BoxJudges 9:21 
Context9:21 Then Jotham ran away 1 to Beer and lived there to escape from 2 Abimelech his half-brother. 3
Judges 9:24
Context9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother 4 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. 5
1 tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”
2 tn Heb “from before.”
3 tn Heb “his brother.”
4 tn Heb “their brother.”
5 tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”
