Bible verse
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
Judges 9:53 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 9.
49 So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.
51 But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
52 When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
53 But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
54 He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
55 And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
56 In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
57 And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
KJV
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
ASV
And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and brake his skull.
ERV
And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and brake his skull.
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