Judges 9:56 meaning and explanation

In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

Judges 9:56, Berean Standard Bible

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This closing verse states the chapter's verdict: God repaid Abimelech for murdering his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, also called Gideon. Abimelech had hired reckless men with silver from the temple of Baal-berith and killed his brothers on a single stone at Ophrah so that he could become king over Shechem.

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