Hakim-hakim 9:51

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi ada sebuah menara yang kuat di tengah-tengah kota, dan semua laki-laki dan perempuan, seluruh warga kota itu, melarikan diri ke situ; mereka menutup pintu di belakangnya dan naik ke atas sotoh menara itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi ada sebuah menara yang kuat di tengah-tengah kota, dan semua laki-laki dan perempuan, seluruh warga kota itu, melarikan diri ke situ; mereka menutup pintu di belakangnya dan naik ke atas sotoh menara itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi di tengah-tengah negeri adalah sebuah menara yang teguh, maka segala orang, baik laki-laki baik perempuan dan segala orang isi negeripun lari ke sana, lalu dikuncikannya pintunya, maka naiklah mereka itu sekalian ke atas sotoh menara itu.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁰ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, & besieged it, and toke it. ⁵¹ But there was a strong towre within the citie, and thyther ranne all the men and women, and all the chiefe that were in the citie, and shut it to them, and gate them vp to the toppe of the towre. ⁵² And Abimelech came vnto the towre, and fought agaynst it, and went harde vnto the doore of ye towre to set it on fire. ⁵³ And a certayne woman cast a peece of a mylstone vpon his head, & all to brake his brayne panne. ⁵⁴ Then Abimelech called hastyly vnto the young man that bare his harnesse, and sayde vnto him: Drawe thy sworde and slea me, that men say not of me, A woman slue him: And his lad thrust him thorowe, and he died. ⁵⁵ And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne house. ⁵⁶ Thus God rendred the wickednesse of Abimelech which he dyd vnto his father, in sleyng his seuentie brethren. ⁵⁷ And therto all the wickednesse of the men of Sichem, dyd God bryng vpon their heades: And vpon them came the curse of Ioatham the sonne of Ierobaal.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

But there was a strong tower within the city,.... The tower of Shechem was without the city, but this within, as towers generally are:

and hither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city; men, women, and children, man and maid servants, all the inhabitants of the city; the tower being a large place, having not only many rooms in it, but perhaps a large area in the midst of it, as well as it had battlements on the top of it:

and shut it to them; the gates of it, and which no doubt they strongly barred and bolted, to keep out the enemy:

and gat them up to the top of the tower; to observe the motions of Abimelech, and annoy him as much as they could with what they carried with them, as stones, and the like.