Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
(For my father fought for you, and he will cast his soul away, and he will deliver you from the hand of Midian.
New American Standard Bible
for my father fought for you and
King James Version
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Holman Bible
for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you from the hand of Midian,
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.
A Conservative Version
(for my father fought for you, and ventured his life, and delivered you out of 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:
Amplified
for my father fought for you and risked his life and rescued you from the hand of Midian;
Bible in Basic English
(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;
Darby Translation
for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Mid'ian;
King James 2000
(For my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Lexham Expanded Bible
for my father fought and {risked his life} for you and delivered you from the hand of Midian;
Modern King James verseion
in which my father fought for you and much endangered his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
- forasmuch as my father fought for you and adventured his life, and rid you out of the hands of the Midianites -
NET Bible
my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian's power.
New Heart English Bible
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
The Emphasized Bible
in that my father fought for you, and cast his soul away from before him, and rescued you out of the hand of Midian; -
Webster
(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, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Youngs 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;
Themes
Fatherless » Exemplified » Jotham
Ingratitude » Of man to man » Shechemites
Jotham » Son of gideon » Rebukes the shechemites with the parable about the trees
Leaders » Men of God » Men raised up as deliverers of israel
Orphan » Instances of » Jotham
Religious » Men of God » Men raised up as deliverers of israel
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 9:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abimelech Attempts To Become King
16 And now if in truth and in uprightness ye did and ye shall make Abimelech king, and if ye did good with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if according to the desert of his hands ye did to him: 17 (For my father fought for you, and he will cast his soul away, and he will deliver you from the hand of Midian. 18 And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:)
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 7:1-25
And Jerub-Baal (he is Gideon) will rise early and all the people that is with him, and they will encamp by the fountain of Harod: and the camp of Midian was to him from the north from the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges 8:4-10
And Gideon will come to Jordan to pass through, he and the three hundred men that are with him, faint and pursuing.
Esther 4:16
Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.
Romans 5:8
And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.
Romans 16:4
Who for my soul have laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations.
Revelation 12:11
And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their souls till death.