54. Abimelech quickly said to the servant who carried his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me. I want you to kill me so that people will not say, ‘A woman killed Abimelech.’” So the servant stabbed Abimelech with his sword, and he died.
55. The Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, so they all went back home.
56. In that way God punished Abimelech for all the bad things he had done. Abimelech sinned against his own father by killing his 70 brothers.
57. God also punished the men of the city of Shechem for the bad things they had done. So the things said by Jotham son of Gideon came true.