Judges 9:22-25
1599 Geneva Bible
22 So Abimelech reigned three years over Israel.
23 But God [a]sent an evil spirit between Abimelech, and the men of Shechem: and the men of Shechem brake their promise to Abimelech,
24 That the cruelty toward the seventy sons of Jerubbaal and their blood might come and be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which had slain them, and upon the men of Shechem, which had aided him to kill his brethren.
25 So the men of Shechem set men in wait for him in the tops of the mountains: who robbed all that passed that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
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- Judges 9:23 Because the people consented with the king in shedding innocent blood, therefore God destroyeth both one and the other.
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