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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[a] stabbed him, and he died. 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each one went to his home.[b] 56 So God repaid[c] the wickedness[d] that Abimelech committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:54 Hebrew “his young man”
  2. Judges 9:55 Or “place”
  3. Judges 9:56 Or “returned”
  4. Judges 9:56 Or “evil”