Judges 9:56
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
55And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
Cross References
Judges 9:24that the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.
Psalms 9:12(9-13) For He that avengeth blood hath remembered them; He hath not forgotten the cry of the humble.
Psalms 58:10(58-11) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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 →