^{53 Ref} But a certain woman sent a great stone, such as is used for crushing grain, on to the head of Abimelech, cracking the bone.

^{54 Ref} Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

^{55 Ref} And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.

^{56 Ref} In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;

^{57 Ref} And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.