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52 Abimelech came up to the tower and fought against it, and he came near the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 But a certain woman[a] threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and cracked open his skull. 54 He called quickly to the young man carrying his weapons, and he said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that they will not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man[b] stabbed him, and he died.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:53 Or “But one woman”
  2. Judges 9:54 Hebrew “his young man”