4 Then they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baʹal-beʹrith,+ and with them A·bimʹe·lech proceeded to hire idle and insolent men,+ that they might accompany him.

5 But the Jews, getting jealous,+ took into their company certain wicked men of the marketplace idlers and formed a mob and proceeded to throw the city into an uproar.+ And they assaulted the house of Jaʹson+ and went seeking to have them brought forth to the rabble.