Judges 9:53 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

A certain woman cast a piece of a millstone, &c.— A woman threw down from the top of a tower a large stone upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull; which is an old Anglicism, and might be rendered much more eligibly, and fractured his skull. Thus Pyrrhus, at the siege of Thebes, was killed by a woman who threw a tile upon his head. See Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus. But Abimelech's death by a stone is the more remarkable, as it carried some stamp of his sin upon it, who had slain all his brethren on a stone.