Judges 9:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² ‘Please speak in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, “Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal,^(A) rule over you or that one man rule over you? ” Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.’^[a]

³ His mother’s relatives spoke all these words about him in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, and they were favourable to Abimelech, for they said, ‘He is our brother.’ ⁴ So they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith.^[b] Abimelech used it to hire worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.