Thus God rendered, &c. This and the following verse conclude the history of Abimelech with a divine admonition, that no man might think such things come to pass by chance. We see God, the judge of all, punished both Abimelech and the men of Shechem according to their deserts, and made them the instruments of each other's destruction. And it is remarkable that this punishment overtook them speedily, within less than four years after their crime was committed. The wickedness of Abimelech In rooting out, as far as he could, the name and memory of his father.
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Judges 9:56
56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: