Judges 9:55

55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

Judges 9:55 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:55

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead
That is, those that were with him, the men of his army, who were all Israelites:

they departed every man to his place;
disbanded themselves, and went everyone to their own home, and so the inhabitants of Thebez escaped the vengeance of Abimelech.

Judges 9:55 In-Context

53 But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech's head and fractured his skull.

54 He quickly called his armor-bearer and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, or they'll say about me, 'A woman killed him.' " So his armor-bearer thrust him through, and he died.

55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

56 In this way, the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers, God turned back on him.

57 And God also returned all the evil of the men of Shechem on their heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came on them.