34 So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies. 35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush. 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from (A)the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake[a] the shadow of the mountains for men.”

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  1. Judges 9:36 Hebrew You see

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