9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes,54 squeezed out the juice,55 and celebrated. They came to the temple56 of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
tnHeb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110–14.