OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 52

Judges 9:52

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Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

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Judges 9:49–55

49

All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

50

Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

51

But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

52
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Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

53

A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

54

Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”

55

When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.

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