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51 But there was a strong tower in the city, and all the men and women—all the people of the city—fled there and shut themselves in; then they went up to the top of the tower.
52 So Abimelech came as far as the tower and fought against it; and he drew near the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
53 But a certain woman adropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.  
54 Then ahe called quickly to the young man, his armorbearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So his young man thrust him through, and he died.  
55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man to his1 place.  
56 aThus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.  
57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came athe curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Judges 9:53

A piece of a millstone - pelach recheb , a piece of a chariot wheel; but the word is used in other places for upper millstones, and is so understood here by the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic.

And all to break his skull - A most nonsensical version of vattarits eth gulgolto , which is literally, And she brake, or fractured, his skull. Plutarch, in his life of Pyrrhus, observes that this king was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head.


 
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