Discovery BoxJudges 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 1 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. 2
Judges 9:56-57
Context9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 3 9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell 4 on them.
1 tn Heb “their brother.”
2 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.”
3 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
4 tn Heb “came.”
