Judges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.
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- 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.
- Deut 29:23 : 23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
- 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.
- Ps 107:34 : 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
- Ezek 47:11 : 11 The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.
- Zeph 2:9 : 9 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
- Jas 2:13 : 13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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- Judg 9:38-447 verses84%
38Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.
39So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.
40And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.
41Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.
42Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.
43And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.
44And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.
- Judg 9:46-5611 verses80%
46Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.
47And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.
48Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.
49So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.
50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.
51But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.
52And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.
53But a certain woman sent a great stone, such as is used for crushing grain, on to the head of Abimelech, cracking the bone.
54Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.
55And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.
56In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
- Judg 9:31-355 verses74%
31And he sent to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, See, Gaal, the son of Ebed, and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are working up the town against you.
32So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;
33And in the morning, when the sun is up, get up early and make a rush on the town; and when he and his people come out against you, do to them whatever you have a chance to do.
34So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.
35And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and took his place at the doorway into the town; then Abimelech and his people got up from the place where they had been waiting.
- Judg 9:22-254 verses73%
22So Abimelech was chief over Israel for three years.
23And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;
24So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.
25And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.
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27And they went out into their fields and got in the fruit of their vines, and when the grapes had been crushed, they made a holy feast and went into the house of their god, and over their food and drink they were cursing Abimelech.
- Judg 9:4-63 verses72%
4And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.
5Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.
6And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.
- Judg 9:18-203 verses72%
18And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)
19If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;
20But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.
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17And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.
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1Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,
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8Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.
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29If only I had authority over this people! I would put Abimelech out of the way, and I would say to Abimelech, Make your army strong, and come out.
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35And that day they took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword, as he had done to Lachish.
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9Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.
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11And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
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4Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?
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15And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.
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25And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
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25Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.
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19And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.
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8He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.
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25So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe.
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15Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.