Abimelech's Death at Thebez

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Then went Abimelech to Tebez, and besieged Tebez, and tooke it.

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But there was a strong towre within the citie, and thither fledde all the men and women, and all the chiefe of the citie, and shut it to them, and went vp to the toppe of the towre.

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And Abimelech came vnto the towre and fought against it, and went hard vnto the doore of the towre to set it on fire.

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But a certaine woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and brake his braine pan.

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Then Abimelech called hastily his page that bare his harneis, and sayde vnto him, Drawe thy sworde and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slewe him. And his page thrust him thorowe, and he dyed.

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And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne place.

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Thus God rendred the wickednes of Abimelech, which he did vnto his father, in slaying his seuentie brethren.

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Also all the wickednes of the men of Shechem did God bring vpon their heads. So vpon them came the curse of Iotham the sonne of Ierubbaal.

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