Judges 9:56 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;
English ASV
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
English Amplified
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech which he had done to his father [Gideon] by slaying his seventy brothers;
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech which he had done to his father [Gideon] by slaying his seventy brothers;
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
In this way, God brought back Abimelech’s evil—the evil that Abimelech had done to his father when he killed his seventy brothers.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
And God rendered back the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in slaying his seventy brethren.
English EASY 2024
That was how God punished Abimelech. He had done an evil thing against his father when he killed his 70 brothers.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
In that way God punished Abimelech for all the bad things he had done. Abimelech sinned against his own father by killing his 70 brothers.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
And so it was that God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
English God's Word - GW 1995
So God paid back Abimelech for the evil he had done to his father when he killed his 70 brothers.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
In this way, the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers, God turned back on him.
English KJV 1611
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
English LSB
Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
Thus did God requite the evil Abimelech had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
That's how God paid Abimelech back for the evil thing he had done to his father. He had murdered his 70 brothers.
English NIV
Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
English NKJ 1982
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.
English NLT
Thus, God punished Abimelech for the evil he had done against his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
God avenged the evil that Abimelech had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Thus God punished both Abimelech and the men of Shechem for their sin of murdering Gideon's seventy sons.
English Tyndale 1537
And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren,