Judges 9:57
The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
56And God repaid the evil, that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.
Cross References
Judges 1:7And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Judges 9:45And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.
1 Kings 16:34In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho: in Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son Segub he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue the son of Nun.
Psalms 94:23And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
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 →