Discovery BoxJudges 9:7 
Context9:7 When Jotham heard the news, 1 he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, 2 “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!
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 3 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. 4
Judges 19:27
Context19:27 When her master 5 got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.
1 tn Heb “And they reported to Jotham.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.
2 tn Heb “He lifted his voice and called and said to them.”
3 tn Heb “their brother.”
4 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.”
5 tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.
