Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Abimelech thought the tower at Thebez would fall as easily as the stronghold at Shechem, but he did not reckon that God had marked him for ruin. Those who prosper in one bold wickedness grow blind to their danger and rush headlong into the next. Evil pursues sinners, and sometimes catches them in their triumph.
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Commenting on Judges 9:50-57
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead,.... That is, those that were with him, the men of his army, who were all Israelites: they departed every man to his place; disbanded themselves, and went everyone to their own home, and so the inhabitants of Thebez escaped the vengeance of Abimelech.
ABIMELECH SLAIN. (Jdg 9:50-57) Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez--now Tubas--not far from Shechem.
Commenting on Judges 9:50-57