Judges 9:56
This is how God paid back Abimelech's crime against his father of murdering his seventy brothers.
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55When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all left and went home.
Cross References
Judges 9:24This happened because of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerub-baal and that responsibility for their blood be placed on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the leaders of Shechem, who provided the means to kill his brothers.
Psalms 9:12He does not forget to punish murderers; he does not ignore the cries of the suffering.
Psalms 58:10Those who live right will be happy when they see there is punishment; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Proverbs 5:22The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.
Acts 28:4When the people there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer. Even though he escaped death from the sea, Justice won't let him live.”
Revelation 19:20The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped the beast's image). Both of them were thrown alive into the like of fire that burns with sulfur.
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 →