⁵³ a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.^(A)

⁵⁴ Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me,^(B) so that they can’t say, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his servant ran him through, and he died. ⁵⁵ When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.