Thebez in the Bible
Meaning: muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk
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Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
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.
So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
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Thebez » A city » A city, at which abimelech was killed while besieging
A woman threw a millstone down on his head and fractured his skull. He quickly called the young man who was carrying his weapons and told him: Draw your sword and kill me. I do not want it said that a woman killed me. The young man ran him through with his sword and he died. The Israelites went home as soon as they saw that Abimelech was dead. Thus God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.