Judges 9:45
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.”
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“And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Abimelech hath fought against the city all that day, and captureth the city, and the people who <FI>are<Fi> in it he hath slain, and he breaketh down the city, and soweth it <FI>with<Fi> salt.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 9:45 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- 1 Kings 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
- 2 Kings 3:25They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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