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John Gill's Exposition on Judges 9:24

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, etc.] That vengeance might come on the authors of it; so things were ordered in Providence that this might come to pass: and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; be charged to his account, and he suffer for shedding it: and upon the men of Shechem which aided him in killing of his brethren; by giving him money to hire men to go with him to do it, and perhaps by words encouraging the assassins, and who might be of the city of Shechem.
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