And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
WEB
Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.
YLT
And Jotham hasteth, and fleeth, and goeth to Beer, and dwelleth there, from the face of Abimelech his brother.
DBT
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, because of Abimelech his brother.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The 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