Judges 9:53

Overview - Judges 9
1	Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king.
7	Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin.
22	Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him.
30	Zebul reveals it.
34	Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt.
46	He burns the hold of the god Berith.
50	At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone.
56	Jotham's curse if fulfilled.

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Judges 9:53 (King James Version)
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

woman: Judges 9:15 Judges 9:20 ; 2 Samuel 11:21 ; 20:21 Job 31:3 ; Jeremiah 49:20 ; 50:45
and all to: An antiquated expression, meaning "full intention" to complete an object; "All to," observes Dr. Johnson, "is a particle of mere enforcement." The original is {wattaritz eth gulgalto,} which is simply as the LXX. render [kai eklase to kranion autou,] "and she brake his skull." Plutarch relates, that Pyrrhus was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head.