Judges 9:56 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

This is how God paid back Abimelech for the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God brought justice against Abimelech for murdering his seventy half-brothers in his quest for power.

📚 Historical Context

Abimelech was the son of Gideon (also called Jerubbaal) who murdered seventy of his half-brothers to secure his position as ruler over Israel. Only one brother, Jotham, escaped the massacre. This verse concludes the account of how God's justice eventually caught up with Abimelech through his violent death at Thebez.

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Judges 9:5

He went to his father's house in Ophrah and killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal—seventy men—on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived because he hid himself.

Judges 9:18

But today you have turned against my father's family and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his servant woman, king over the people of Shechem, just because he is your relative.

Judges 9:24

This happened so that the terrible murder of Gideon's seventy sons would be punished, and their blood would be on the hands of their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who helped him murder his brothers.

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