Judges 9:56
and God turns back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brothers;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
55And the men of Israel see that Abimelech [is] dead, and each one goes to his place;
Cross References
Judges 9:24for [the] coming in of [the] violence [against] seventy sons of Jerubba‘al, and to place their blood on their brother Abimelech, who slew them, and on the masters of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers.
Psalms 9:12For He who is seeking for blood || Has remembered them, || He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 58:10The righteous rejoices that he has seen vengeance, || He washes his steps in the blood of the wicked.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Acts 28:4And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not permit to live”;
Revelation 19:20and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image; the two were cast living into the lake of the fire that is 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 →