Judges 9:32
New International Version
Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

New Living Translation
Come by night with an army and hide out in the fields.

English Standard Version
Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.

Berean Standard Bible
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

King James Bible
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

New King James Version
Now therefore, get up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

New American Standard Bible
So now, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

NASB 1995
“Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

NASB 1977
“Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Amplified Bible
Now then, get up during the night, you and the people who are with you, and set up an ambush in the field.

Christian Standard Bible
Now tonight, you and the troops with you, come and wait in ambush in the countryside.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now tonight, you and the people with you are to come wait in ambush in the countryside.

American Standard Version
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Now arise in the night, you and the people that are with you, and lie in wait in the field

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now rise up by night, thou and the people with thee, and lay wait in the field.

Contemporary English Version
This is what I think you should do. Lead your army here during the night and hide in the fields.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise therefore in the night with the people that is with thee and he hid in the field:

English Revised Version
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You and your men must start out tonight. Set an ambush [for them] in the fields [around Shechem].

Good News Translation
Now then, you and your men should move by night and hide in the fields.

International Standard Version
So get up at night, take your soldiers with you, and wait in ambush out in the field.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field.

Literal Standard Version
and now, rise by night, you and the people who [are] with you, and lay wait in the field,

Majority Standard Bible
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

New American Bible
So take action tonight, you and the troops who are with you, and set an ambush in the fields.

NET Bible
Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

New Revised Standard Version
Now therefore, go by night, you and the troops that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.

New Heart English Bible
Now therefore, rise up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore rise by night, thou, and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

World English Bible
Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Young's Literal Translation
and, now, rise by night, thou and the people who are with thee, and lay wait in the field,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Fall of Shechem
31So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you. 32Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields. 33And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”…

Cross References
Judges 9:31
So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, "Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.

Judges 9:33
And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able."


Treasury of Scripture

Now therefore up by night, you and the people that is with you, and lie in wait in the field:

by night

Job 24:14-17
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief…

Psalm 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Proverbs 1:11-16
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …

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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.














(32) Lie in wait in the field.--To surprise the Shechemites when they went out to finish their vintage operations, which they would do securely under the protection of Gaal's forces.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now then,
וְעַתָּה֙ (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

tonight
לַ֔יְלָה (lay·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

you
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

and the people
וְהָעָ֣ם (wə·hā·‘ām)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

with you
אִתָּ֑ךְ (’it·tāḵ)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

are to come
ק֣וּם (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and lie in wait
וֶאֱרֹ֖ב (we·’ĕ·rōḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 693: To lie in wait

in the fields.
בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃ (baś·śā·ḏeh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land


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