Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 40 [e] וַאֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ wa-’ă-ḇî-me-leḵ So Abimelech Conj-w | N-proper-ms 3898 [e] נִלְחָ֣ם nil-ḥām fought V-Nifal-Prtcpl-ms 5892 [e] בָּעִ֗יר bā-‘îr, against the city Prep-b, Art | N-fs 3605 [e] כֹּ֚ל kōl all N-msc 3117 [e] הַיּ֣וֹם hay-yō-wm day Art | N-ms 1931 [e] הַה֔וּא ha-hū, that Art | Pro-3ms 3920 [e] וַיִּלְכֹּד֙ way-yil-kōḏ and he took Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms 853 [e] אֶת־ ’eṯ- - DirObjM 5892 [e] הָעִ֔יר hā-‘îr, the city Art | N-fs 853 [e] וְאֶת־ wə-’eṯ- and Conj-w | DirObjM 5971 [e] הָעָ֥ם hā-‘ām the people Art | N-ms 834 [e] אֲשֶׁר־ ’ă-šer- who [were] Pro-r   בָּ֖הּ bāh in it Prep | 3fs 2026 [e] הָרָ֑ג hā-rāḡ; killed V-Qal-Perf-3ms 5422 [e] וַיִּתֹּץ֙ way-yit-tōṣ and he demolished Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms 853 [e] אֶת־ ’eṯ- - DirObjM 5892 [e] הָעִ֔יר hā-‘îr, the city Art | N-fs 2232 [e] וַיִּזְרָעֶ֖הָ way-yiz-rā-‘e-hā and sowed it Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms | 3fs 4417 [e] מֶֽלַח׃ me-laḥ. with salt N-ms   פ p̄ - Punc

New American Standard Bible
Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

he took

Judges 9:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men …

beat

Deuteronomy 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, …

1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelled therein; …

2 Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast …

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be …

Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely …

James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …

sowed. Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonium observes, that when Milan was taken, A.D.

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