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Summary
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
He took
Bible References
He took
Judges 9:20
And if not, fire shall come forth from Abimelech and shall consume the lords of Shechem and the House of the Rampart; and fire shall come forth from the lords of Shechem and from the House of the Rampart, and shall consume Abimelech.
Beat
Deuteronomy 29:23
Pitch and burning salt, all its land; it shall not be sown, and it shall not sprout, and no green herb shall come up upon it, as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
1 Kings 12:25
And Jeroboam will build Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwell in it; and he will go forth from there and build Penuel.
2 Kings 3:25
And they will tear down the cities, and on all the good portion of Moab they will cast a man his stone, and they filled it; and they will shut up all the fountains of water, and they will cause every good tree to fall: till he left its stones in the city of potsherds, and the slingers will encompass and strike it.
Psalm 107:34
A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it
Zephaniah 2:9
For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.
James 2:13
For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.