Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
We have seen the ruin of the Shechemites completed by the hand of Abimelech; and now it comes to his turn to be reckoned with who was their leader in villany. Thebez was a small city, probably not far from Shechem, dependent upon it, and in confederacy with it. Now, I.
Commenting on Judges 9:50-57
And all the evil of the men of Shechem,.... In aiding Abimelech to slay his brethren, and in making him king after so foul a fact committed: did God render upon their heads; by suffering Abimelech to beat down their city, and destroy the inhabitants of it, and by burning the hold in which the men of the tower of Shechem were, and them in...
ABIMELECH SLAIN. (Jdg 9:50-57) Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez--now Tubas--not far from Shechem.
Commenting on Judges 9:50-57