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Judges 9:53-55
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53 a certain woman cast the upper part of a millstone[a] down on Abimelech’s head, and it fractured his skull.(A) 54 He immediately called his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and put me to death so they will not say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’”(B) So his attendant ran him through and he died. 55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all left for their homes.

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  1. 9:53 The upper part of a millstone: a common hand mill consisted of a large flat stone base and a smaller upper stone (cf. Dt 24:6) shaped so that it could be held in the hands and rolled or ground against the lower stone. It is an upper stone that the woman hurls over the wall to kill Abimelech.
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