And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
A certain woman cast a ... millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull. Similar was the fate of Pyrrhus. The Argives did not receive him; he fell before the wall, a certain woman having thrown down a tile from above on his head (Strabo, lib. 5:, 101). The Assyrian bas-reliefs afford counterparts of the scene here described, so vivid and exact that we might almost suppose them to be representations of the same historic events. The besieged city, the strong tower within, the men and women crowding its battlements, the fire applied to the doors, and even the huge fragments of stone dropping from the hands of one of the garrison on the heads of the assailants, are all well represented to the life, just as they are here described in the narrative of inspired truth (Goose, 'Assyria,' p. 343).