Judges 9:45 meaning and explanation
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
Judges 9:45, Berean Standard Bible
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Abimelech, son of Gideon (Jerubbaal), has just put down a revolt in Shechem, the city of his mother's clan, which had first supported him and then turned against him. The verse reports the brutal end of that siege: he kills the city's people and sows the site with salt, a symbolic act of total destruction meant to leave the ground barren and unfit for rebuilding.
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