Discovery BoxJudges 9:38 
Context9:38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words, 1 ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men 2 you insulted? 3 Go out now and fight them!”
Judges 9:43
Context9:43 he took his men 4 and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, 5 he attacked and struck them down. 6
Judges 9:48
Context9:48 He and all his men 7 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 8 took an ax 9 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 10 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 11
1 tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”
2 tn Heb “the people.”
3 tn Or “despised.”
4 tn Heb “his people.”
5 tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”
6 tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”
7 tn Heb “his people.”
8 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
9 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
10 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
11 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
