Judges 9:4
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
Note 70 shekels is approximately 1.76 pounds or 797.8 grams of silver.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- house
- Judges 9:46–49; Judges 8:33
- Judges 9:4
- vain, etc.{Anashim raikim oophochozim,} "worthless and dissolute men;" persons who were living on the public, and had nothing to lose. Such was the foundation of his Babel government. By a cunning management of such unprincipled men most revolutions are brought about.
- Judges 11:3; 1 Samuel 22:2; 2 Chronicles 13:7; Job 30:8; Proverbs 12:11; Acts 17:5