Judges 9:50

Contemporary English Version

After destroying Shechem, Abimelech went to Thebez. He surrounded the town and captured it.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Abimelech went to Thebez, camped against it, and captured it.

Hebrew Names Version
Then went Avimelekh to Tevetz, and encamped against Tevetz, and took it.

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

Lexham English Bible
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and captured it.

English Standard Version
Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.

New Century Version
Then Abimelech went to the city of Thebez. He surrounded the city, attacked it, and captured it.

New English Translation
Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.

Amplified Bible
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and camped against Thebez and took it.

New American Standard Bible
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then went Abimelech to Tebez, and besieged Tebez, and tooke it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Daarna het Abiméleg na Tebes getrek en Tebes beleër en dit ingeneem.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Avimelekh went to Tevetz, set up camp against Tevetz and captured it.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Abimelech and his men went to the city of Thebez and captured that city.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Abimeleck went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez and took it.

Good News Translation
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, surrounded that city, and captured it.

Literal Translation
And Abimelech went to Thebez and camped against Thebez, and captured it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for Abimelech, he wete vnto Thebetz, and layed sege vnto it, and wanne it.

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

Bible in Basic English
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, & besieged it, and toke it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

King James Version (1611)
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and tooke it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Abimelech went out of Baethel-berith, and encamped against Thebes, and took it.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Abymelech wente forth fro thennus, and cam to the citee of Thebes, which he cumpasside, and bisegide with an oost.

Young's Literal Translation
And Abimelech goeth unto Thebez, and encampeth against Thebez, and captureth it,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

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

New King James Version
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and took it.

New Living Translation
Then Abimelech attacked the town of Thebez and captured it.

New Life Bible
Then Abimelech went to Thebez. He fought against it and took it.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then went Abimelech unto Thebez, - and encamped against Thebez, and captured it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.

Revised Standard Version
Then Abim'elech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

THE MESSAGE
Abimelech went on to Thebez. He camped at Thebez and captured it. The Tower-of-Strength stood in the middle of the city; all the men and women of the city along with the city's leaders had fled there and locked themselves in. They were up on the tower roof. Abimelech got as far as the tower and assaulted it. He came up to the tower door to set it on fire. Just then some woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and crushed his skull. He called urgently to his young armor bearer and said, "Draw your sword and kill me so they can't say of me, ‘A woman killed him.'" His armor bearer drove in his sword, and Abimelech died.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁰ After destroying Shechem, Abimelech went to Thebez. He surrounded the town and captured it. ⁵¹ But there was a tall fortress in the middle of the town, and the town leaders and everyone else went inside. Then they barred the gates and went up to the flat roof. ⁵² Abimelech and his army rushed to the fortress and tried to force their way inside. Abimelech himself was about to set the heavy wooden doors on fire, ⁵³ when a woman on the roof dropped a large rock on his head and cracked his skull. ⁵⁴ The soldier who carried his weapons was nearby, and Abimelech told him, "Take out your sword and kill me. I don't want people to say that I was killed by a woman!" So the soldier ran his sword through Abimelech. ⁵⁵ And when the Israelite soldiers saw that their leader was dead, they went back home. ⁵⁶ That's how God punished Abimelech for killing his brothers and bringing shame on his father's family. ⁵⁷ God also punished the people of Shechem for helping Abimelech. Everything happened just as Jotham's curse said it would.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thebez: According to Eusebius, thirteen miles from Shechem, towards Scythopolis. Judges 9:50

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:17 - besieged Tirzah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then went Abimelech to Thebez,.... Which, according to Ben Gersom, had rebelled against him; it was near to Shechem. Adrichomius says p, the ruins, where he thinks stood the city of Thebez, were but one furlong from Neapolis or Shechem, where, to the left of Jacob's well, were to be seen ruins of a large town, marble stones, whole pillars, and other signs of large palaces, and the soil wonderfully fruitful; and Jerome says q, that in his time there was a village called Thebes, on the borders of Neapolis or Shechem, as you go to Scythopolis, thirteen miles from it. It must be near Shechem, inhabited by Shechemites, to fulfil Jotham's curse, Judges 9:20

and encamped against Thebez, and took it: it seems not to have held out long, being deserted by its inhabitants, who fled to the tower, as follows.

p Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 70. q De loc. Heb. 95. D.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The men of Thebez (modern Tubas) had, doubtless, joined the Shechemites in their rebellion against Abimelech.