Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
- KJV Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
- NKJV Now therefore, get up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
- NASB So now, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
- NLT Come by night with an army and hide out in the fields.
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Quick answer
Zebul advises Abimelech to come by night and lie in ambush in the fields.
Overview
He proposes a stealthy military strategy to surprise Gaal and Shechem. The counsel sets up the deadly trap against the rebellious city. Human scheming again becomes the instrument by which the curse moves toward fulfillment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Prov 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Rom 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
- Prov 1:11–16If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- Job 24:14–17When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- Ps 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
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