Hakim-hakim 9:7

Jotham’s Parable

9:7 When Jotham heard the news, ¹  he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, ²  “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

Hakim-hakim 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ³  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁴  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁵ 

[9:7]  ¹ tn Heb “And they reported to Jotham.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

[9:7]  ² tn Heb “He lifted his voice and called and said to them.”

[20:48]  ³ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

[20:48]  ⁴ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

[20:48]  ⁵ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”