Judges 9:56
So God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he wrought against his father, in slaying his seventy brethren.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
55And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead; and they went each to his place.
Cross References
Judges 9:24to bring the injury done to the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and to lay their blood upon their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and upon the men of Sicima, because they strengthened his hands to kill his brethren.
Psalms 9:12For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor. 1
Psalms 58:10As for my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me vengeance on my enemies. 1
Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
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 →