Judges 9:55

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.

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And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

In Context

54Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

56In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 18:16And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.

1 Kings 22:35But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

Matthew Henry on Judges 9:51-57

The Death of Abimelech. ( b. c. 1206.) 50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.… Read the whole commentary →

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