16 “Now therefore, if you have acted in truth and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him (A)as[a] he deserves— 17 for my (B)father fought for you, risked his life, and (C)delivered you out of the hand of Midian; 18 (D)but you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his (E)female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother— 19 if then you have acted in truth and sincerity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then (F)rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:16 Lit. according to the doing of his hands

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