As [Abimelech] approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull. (Judges 9:52,53)You may remember my teaching on David and Bathsheba late in February. In that passage, 2 Samuel 11, Joab references the story of Abimelech's death.
In today's reading, Abimelech asked his armor bearer to kill him so that no one would ever say he'd been killed by a woman. In 2 Samuel 11:21, Joab asks the question: Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez?
Apparently Abimelech's plan to protect his reputation didn't work.
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