Judges 9:45

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Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
  • 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 9:38-44
    7 verses
    84%

    38Zebul said to him,“Where now are your bragging words,‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men you insulted? Go out now and fight them!”

    39So Gaal led the leaders of Shechem out and fought Abimelech.

    40Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran from him. Many Shechemites fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

    41Abimelech went back to Arumah; Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

    42The next day the Shechemites came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it,

    43he took his men and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he attacked and struck them down.

    44Abimelech and his units attacked and blocked the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

  • Judg 9:46-56
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    46When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.

    47Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.

    48He and all his men went up on Mount Zalmon. He took an ax in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it on his shoulder and said to his men,“Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!”

    49So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the stronghold and set fire to it. All the people of the Tower of Shechem died– about a thousand men and women.

    50Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.

    51There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

    52Abimelech came and attacked the tower. When he approached the entrance of the tower to set it on fire,

    53a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.

    54He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons,“Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say,‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died.

    55When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

    56God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.

  • Judg 9:31-35
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    31He sent messengers to Abimelech, who was in Arumah, reporting,“Beware! Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming to Shechem and inciting the city to rebel against you.

    32Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

    33In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.”

    34So Abimelech and all his men came up at night and set an ambush outside Shechem– they divided into four units.

    35When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

  • Judg 9:22-25
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    73%

    22God Fulfills Jotham’s Curse Abimelech commanded Israel for three years.

    23God sent a spirit to stir up hostility between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal to Abimelech.

    24He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.

    25The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting bandits in the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.

  • Judg 9:27
    72%

    27They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

  • Judg 9:4-6
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    4They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous men as his followers.

    5He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, because he hid.

    6All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.

  • Judg 9:18-20
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    18But you have attacked my father’s family today. You murdered his seventy legitimate sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.

    19So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!

    20But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!”

  • Judg 8:17
    72%

    17He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

  • Judg 9:1
    71%

    1Abimelech Murders His Brothers Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family,

  • Judg 1:8
    71%

    8The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

  • Judg 9:29
    69%

    29If only these men were under my command, I would get rid of Abimelech!” He challenged Abimelech,“Muster your army and come out for battle!”

  • Josh 10:35
    69%

    35That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

  • Gen 20:9
    69%

    9Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him,“What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

  • Gen 26:11
    69%

    11So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

  • Gen 20:4
    69%

    4Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said,“Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    69%

    15So Joab’s men came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through the wall so that it would collapse,

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
    68%

    25They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
    68%

    19Abijah chased Jeroboam; he seized from him these cities: Bethel and its surrounding towns, Jeshanah and its surrounding towns, and Ephron and its surrounding towns.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    68%

    8He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

  • Judg 1:25
    68%

    25He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

  • Deut 13:15
    68%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.