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Darby's French Translation

Juges 9:51

Et il y avait une tour forte au milieu de la ville; et tous les hommes et toutes les femmes s'y enfuirent, tous les hommes de la ville; et ils fermèrent derrière eux, et montèrent sur le toit de la tour.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judge;   Thebez;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities;   Towers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - City;   Jotham;   Shechem;   Thebez;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   City;   Shechem;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   City;   Thebez;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baal (2);   Fenced Cities;   Thebez;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Judges, Book of;   Thebez;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   City;   Fortification and Siegecraft;   Government;   Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Ophrah;   Palestine;   Shalman;   Shechem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Shechem ;   Thebez ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abimelech;   City;   Fortification;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or, il y avait au milieu de la ville une forte tour, où se réfugièrent tous les hommes avec les femmes, et tous les chefs de la ville. Et ayant fermé les portes après eux, ils montèrent sur la plate-forme de la tour.
Louis Segond (1910)
Il y avait au milieu de la ville une forte tour, où se réfugièrent tous les habitants de la ville, hommes et femmes; ils fermèrent sur eux, et montèrent sur le toit de la tour.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or il y avait au milieu de la ville une Tour forte, où s'enfuirent tous les hommes et toutes les femmes, et tous les Seigneurs de la ville, et ayant fermé les portes après eux, ils montèrent sur le toit de la Tour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 16:27 - the roof 2 Kings 9:13 - on the top

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But there was a strong tower within the city,.... The tower of Shechem was without the city, but this within, as towers generally are:

and hither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city; men, women, and children, man and maid servants, all the inhabitants of the city; the tower being a large place, having not only many rooms in it, but perhaps a large area in the midst of it, as well as it had battlements on the top of it:

and shut it to them; the gates of it, and which no doubt they strongly barred and bolted, to keep out the enemy:

and gat them up to the top of the tower; to observe the motions of Abimelech, and annoy him as much as they could with what they carried with them, as stones, and the like.


 
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