Judges 9:50-57 - Abimelech's Death

50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez and besieged it and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower in the midst of the city, and thither ran all the men and women and all the citizens of the city and shut it to them, and got them up upon the top of the tower. 52 Then came Abimelech unto the tower and fought against it, and went hard unto the entering of the gate, to set it on fire. 53 But a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon his head and all to break his brainpan. 54 Then Abimelech called hastily unto the young man that bare his harness, and said unto him, "Draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me, 'A woman slew him.'" And his lad thrust him through and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man unto his own house.

56 And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren, 57 and thereto all the wickedness of the men of Shechem, God did bring upon their heads: And upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.


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