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Judges 9:37
Judges 9:37 is verse 37 of Judges chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
Literally the navel of the earth
Or the Diviners’ Terebinth or the diviners’ tree
King James Version
And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.
World English Bible
Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”
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Judges 9:35–39 · Berean Standard Bible
35 Now Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelech and his men came out from their hiding places.
36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
37 Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
38 “Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
39 So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought against Abimelech,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 18:14Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.