Judges 9:50
Then Abimelech departing from thence came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Abimelech autem inde proficiscens venit ad oppidum Thebes, quod circumdans obsidebat exercitu.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐπορεύθη Ἀβειμέλεχ ἐκ Βαιθηρβερὶθ καὶ παρενέβαλεν ἐν Θηβής, καὶ κατέλαβεν αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל תֵּבֵ֑ץ וַיִּ֥חַן בְּתֵבֵ֖ץ וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Thebes, about 13 miles from Sichem, towards Scythopolis. (Eusebius)
Besieged. Hebrew, &c., "took," as the sequel shews, (ver. 52,) since Abimelech was killed, as he was attacking the tower or citadel, in the midst of the city. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.