Judices 9:44

Clementine Latin Vulgate

cum cuneo suo, oppugnans, et obsidens civitatem : duæ autem turmæ palantes per campum adversarios persequebantur.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
cum cuneo suo, oppugnans et obsidens civitatem: duæ autem turmæ palantes per campum adversarios persequebantur.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Irruensque cum cuneo suo obsedit ingressum portae civitatis; duae autem turmae palantes per campum adversarios percusserunt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rushed forward: Judges 9:15, Judges 9:20, Galatians 5:15

Reciprocal: Judges 9:35 - the people

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abimelech, and the company that was with him,.... Which he had the particular command of; or "the heads" m, for in the company with him, as Kimchi observes, were great men; and so the Septuagint renders it, the princes that were with him:

rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city; to prevent the people that were in the field getting into it, and any from coming out of it to their relief:

and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them; so that by this means none escaped.

m והראשים "et capita", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "et principes", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This verse explains the purpose of both the present and the former division of Abimelech’s forces into several companies, namely, that while some of the companies attacked the men of Shechem in the field, another company, starting from their ambush, might occupy the approach to the city gate, and so cut off their retreat.