MANNAFEST

Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

KJV

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4 additional translations
ASV

Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

WEB

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.

YLT

And Abimelech goeth unto Thebez, and encampeth against Thebez, and captureth it,

DBT

And Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

About this book

Old Testament

JudgesThe post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author
Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date
Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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