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Judges 9:17
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for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
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(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
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(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
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(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
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Judges 9
15 But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
16 Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
17 for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
18 but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
19 if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.
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