Judges 9:17
New International Version
Remember that my father fought for you and risked his life to rescue you from the hand of Midian.

New Living Translation
For he fought for you and risked his life when he rescued you from the Midianites.

English Standard Version
for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,

Berean Standard Bible
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

King James Bible
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

New King James Version
for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

New American Standard Bible
for my father fought for you, and risked his life and saved you from the hand of Midian;

NASB 1995
for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

NASB 1977
for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

Legacy Standard Bible
for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

Amplified Bible
for my father fought for you and risked his life and rescued you from the hand of Midian;

Christian Standard Bible
for my father fought for you, risked his life, and rescued you from Midian,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you from the hand of Midian,

American Standard Version
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because my father fought for your persons and he put his life on the front lines, and he saved you from the hand of Midian

Brenton Septuagint Translation
as my father fought for you, and put his life in jeopardy, and delivered you out of the hand of Madiam;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hands of Madian,

English Revised Version
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My father fought for you. He risked his life and rescued you from Midian.

Good News Translation
Remember that my father fought for you. He risked his life to save you from the Midianites.

International Standard Version
because my father fought on your behalf, throwing away all concern for his own life, and delivered you from Midian's domination.

JPS Tanakh 1917
for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Literal Standard Version
because my father has fought for you, and casts his life away from [him], and delivers you from the hand of Midian;

Majority Standard Bible
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

New American Bible
for my father fought for you at the risk of his life when he delivered you from the power of Midian,

NET Bible
my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian's power.

New Revised Standard Version
for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Midian;

New Heart English Bible
(for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Webster's Bible Translation
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you from the hand of Midian:

World English Bible
(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Young's Literal Translation
because my father hath fought for you, and doth cast away his life from him, and deliver you from the hand of Midian;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jotham's Parable
16Now 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— 17for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian, 18but 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—…

Cross References
Judges 9:16
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--

Judges 9:18
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--

1 Samuel 19:5
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?"


Treasury of Scripture

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

fought

Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

Judges 8:4-10
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them

adventured his life.

Esther 4:16
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 16:4
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

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Judges 9
1. Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brothers, is made king
7. Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin
22. Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him
30. Zebul reveals it
34. Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt
46. He burns the hold of the god Berith
50. At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone
56. Jotham's curse is fulfilled.














(17) Adventured his life.--Literally, as in the margin, cast his life (LXX., ??????), like the Latin projicere vitam (Lucan, Phars. iv. 516). Comp. the reading paraboleusamenos in Philippians 2:30 and Isaiah 53:12 : "He hath poured out his soul unto death."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
for
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

my father
אָבִ֖י (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

fought
נִלְחַ֥ם (nil·ḥam)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

for you
עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם (‘ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and risked
וַיַּשְׁלֵ֤ךְ (way·yaš·lêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7993: To throw out, down, away

his life
נַפְשׁוֹ֙ (nap̄·šōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

to deliver
וַיַּצֵּ֥ל (way·yaṣ·ṣêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

you
אֶתְכֶ֖ם (’eṯ·ḵem)
Direct object marker | second person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

from the hand
מִיַּ֥ד (mî·yaḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027: A hand

of Midian,
מִדְיָֽן׃ (miḏ·yān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4080: Midian -- a son of Abraham and Keturah, also his descendants and the region where they settled


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