Judges 9:56
And God repaid the evil, that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
55And when he was dead, all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.
Cross References
Judges 9:24And to leave the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood upon Abimelech their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.
Psalms 9:12Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:
Psalms 58:10Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.
Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast, and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.
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 →