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Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
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A Deceptive Night March
Commentators explain that Zebul's advice to Abimelech is a classic military tactic. By urging him to move his forces at night and hide in the fields, he sets up a surprise attack. The goal was to ambush the people of Shechem when they came out in the morning, feeling secure under their new leader, Gaal.
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19th Century
Anglican
Lie in wait in the field. —To surprise the Shechemites when they went out to finish their vintage operations, which they …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now therefore up by night The night following, that no time might be lost:
and the people that is…
Presbyterian
Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's…
