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What does Judges 9:55 mean?
"When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place."
— Judges 9:55 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
Then 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.”
When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
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