And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that [were] with him, from lying in wait.
Ver. 35. And stood in the entering of the gate of the city.] To see what he could discover of the enemy: and had he been as valiant as he was vigilant, it might have gone better with him and his partisans.