Judges 9:45

Webster's Bible (1833)

Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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  • Judg 9:38-44
    7 verses
    84%

    38Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.

    39Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

    40Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

    41Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

    42It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

    43He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.

    44Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.

  • Judg 9:46-56
    11 verses
    80%

    46When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

    47It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

    48Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

    49All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

    50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

    51But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.

    52Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

    53A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.

    54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.

    55When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.

    56Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

  • Judg 9:31-35
    5 verses
    74%

    31He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city [to take part] against you.

    32Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

    33and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and, behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.

    34Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

    35Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

  • Judg 9:22-25
    4 verses
    73%

    22Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.

    23God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

    24that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

    25The men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

  • Judg 9:27
    72%

    27They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

  • Judg 9:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

    5He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

    6All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

  • Judg 9:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

    19if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

    20but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

  • Judg 8:17
    72%

    17He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

  • Judg 9:1
    71%

    1Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

  • Judg 1:8
    71%

    8The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Judg 9:29
    69%

    29Would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come out.

  • Josh 10:35
    69%

    35and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

  • Gen 20:9
    69%

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

  • Gen 26:11
    69%

    11Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

  • Gen 20:4
    69%

    4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    69%

    15They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
    68%

    25They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
    68%

    19Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    68%

    8He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • Judg 1:25
    68%

    25He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.

  • Deut 13:15
    68%

    15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.