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Shechem is destroyed and Abimelech falls at Thebez

God sent hostility between Abimelech and Shechem, bringing judgment for the blood of Gideon's sons. Abimelech destroyed Shechem, but at Thebez a woman dropped a millstone on his head, and his armor-bearer killed him at his request (Judges 9:22-57).

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📖 Judges 9:22–24

22After Abimelech had reigned over Israel for three years, 23God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully, 24in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.

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Sources: Scripture — Judges 9:22-57
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