“If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:”
If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you — Jotham's conditional is ironic: if you have acted in truth, then rejoice. But the preceding verses establish that they have not acted in truth—they have murdered. The conditional is a curse disguised as a wish.
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