Judges 9:24

24 Abimelech had killed Gideon'sn seventy sons, his own brothers, and the leaders of Shechem had helped him. So God sent the evil spirit to punish them.

Judges 9:24 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:24

That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might
come
That vengeance might come on the authors of it; so things were ordered in Providence that this might come to pass:

and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them;
be charged to his account, and he suffer for shedding it:

and upon the men of Shechem which aided him in killing of his brethren;
by giving him money to hire men to go with him to do it, and perhaps by words encouraging the assassins, and who might be of the city of Shechem.

Judges 9:24 In-Context

22 Abimelech ruled Israel for three years.

23 Then God sent an evil spirit to make trouble between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem so that the leaders of Shechem turned against him.

24 Abimelech had killed Gideon'sn seventy sons, his own brothers, and the leaders of Shechem had helped him. So God sent the evil spirit to punish them.

25 The leaders of Shechem were against Abimelech then. They put men on the hilltops in ambush who robbed everyone going by. And Abimelech was told.

26 A man named Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers moved into Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem trusted him.