Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Abimelech

Bible References

Abimelech

Judges 9:53
But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and fractured his skull.

Thy servant

2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
Psalm 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the taunt of fools.
Isaiah 14:10
They all respond to you, saying:
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
Ezekiel 16:51
But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable things you have committed.

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