9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 3
1 tc Heb “stayed.” Some scholars revise the vowel pointing on this verb from that of the MT, resulting in the translation “and he returned to.” The Lucianic recension of the LXX understands the word in this way.
2 tn Heb “drove…out from dwelling in Shechem.”
3 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”