^{53 Ref} and a certain woman doth cast a piece of a rider on the head of Abimelech, and breaketh his skull,

^{54 Ref} and he calleth hastily unto the young man bearing his weapons, and saith to him, `Draw thy sword, and thou hast put me to death, lest they say of me -- A woman slew him;' and his young man pierced him through, and he dieth.

^{55 Ref} And the men of Israel see that Abimelech `is' dead, and go each one to his place;

^{56 Ref} and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;

^{57 Ref} and all the evil of the men of Shechem hath God turned back on their head, and come unto them doth the cursing of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.