Judges 9:32
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New International Version (©2011)
Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Come by night with an army and hide out in the fields.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now tonight, you and the people with you are to come wait in ambush in the countryside.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So get up at night, take your soldiers with you, and wait in ambush out in the field.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You and your men must start out tonight. Set an ambush [for them] in the fields [around Shechem].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now therefore come up by night, you and the people that are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

American King James Version
Now therefore up by night, you and the people that is with you, and lie in wait in the field:

American Standard Version
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise therefore in the night with the people that is with thee and he hid in the field:

Darby Bible Translation
Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.

English Revised Version
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore rise by night, thou, and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

World English Bible
Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

Young's Literal Translation
and, now, rise by night, thou and the people who are with thee, and lay wait in the field,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:30-49 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 sons. When God uses men as instruments in his hand to do his work, he means one thing, and they another. That, which they hoped would have been for their welfare, proved a snare and a trap, as those will certainly find, who run to idols for shelter; such will prove a refuge of lies.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now therefore up by night,.... The night following, that no time might be lost:

and the people that is with thee; the troops he had with him; not only such he had for his own guards, but what he had been raising, having intelligence before this of the revolt of the Shechemites from him:

and lie in wait in the fields; he thought it most advisable for him to march with the forces he had, from the place where he was in the night, and less liable to be discovered, and remain in the fields of Shechem till morning, and then come upon Shechemites before they were aware, and surprise them.

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Gaal Conspires with the Shechemites
…31And he sent messengers to Abimelech privately, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against you. 32Now therefore up by night, you and the people that is with you, and lie in wait in the field: 33And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and set on the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.

Judges 9:31 Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, "Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.
Judges 9:33 In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them."