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Judges 9:53-55
New Catholic Bible
Judges 9:53-55
New Catholic Bible
53 [a]A certain woman cast the upper part of a millstone down upon Abimelech’s head, and it cracked his skull. 54 He called out quickly to his young man, his armor-bearer, and he said, “Draw out your sword and kill me, so that they cannot say, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” His young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they left, each man going home.
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- Judges 9:53 The indignity of being struck by a woman and the weapon she used was God’s way of reducing Abimelech’s stature and punishing him for murdering his brothers to gain power.
