Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
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 all the evil of the men of Shechem,.... In aiding Abimelech to slay his brethren, and in making him king after so foul a fact committed: did God render upon their heads; by suffering Abimelech to beat down their city, and destroy the inhabitants of it, and by burning the hold in which the men of the tower of Shechem were, and them in...
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