Judges 9:55
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father,.... To the disgrace of his father's character, and to the hurt of his father's family:
in slaying his seventy brethren;…
We have seen the ruin of the Shechemites completed by the hand of Abimelech; and now it comes to his turn to be reckoned with who was their leader in villany. Thebez was a small city, probably not far…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the men of Israel Though A. was only half an Israelite, his force was made up of Israelites; he put himself at the head of the Israelite enterprise against the Canaanites such were the natives of…
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