Jueces 9:54

54 Entonces él llamó apresuradamente al muchacho que era su escudero, y le dijo: Saca tu espada y mátame, no sea que se diga de mí: "Una mujer lo mató." Y el muchacho lo traspasó, y murió.

Jueces 9:54 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:54

Then he called hastily to the young man his armourbearer,
&c.] Perceiving it was a mortal blow that was given him, and he should soon expire; and that the cast of the stone was by the hand of a woman, and therefore he was in haste to have the young man come to him:

and said unto him, draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me,
a woman slew him;
it being reckoned very ignominious and reproachful to die by the hand of a woman, and especially any great personage, as a king or general of an army ^F19; to avoid this, he chose rather to be guilty of suicide, or of what cannot well be excused from it, and so died by suicide; which, added to all his other sins, he seemed to have no sense of, or repentance for; and the method he took to conceal the shame of his death served the more to spread it; for this circumstance of his death could not be given without the reason of it, and which was remembered and related punctually near two hundred years afterwards, ( 2 Samuel 11:21 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 "O turpe fatum! foemina Herculeae, necis Auctor feretur ----" Seneca Oetaeo.

Jueces 9:54 In-Context

52 Y Abimelec vino a la torre, la atacó y se acercó a la entrada de la torre para prenderle fuego.

53 Pero una mujer arrojó una muela de molino sobre la cabeza de Abimelec rompiéndole el cráneo.

54 Entonces él llamó apresuradamente al muchacho que era su escudero, y le dijo: Saca tu espada y mátame, no sea que se diga de mí: "Una mujer lo mató." Y el muchacho lo traspasó, y murió.

55 Cuando los hombres de Israel vieron que Abimelec había muerto, cada cual partió para su casa.

56 Así pagó Dios a Abimelec por la maldad que había hecho a su padre al matar a sus setenta hermanos.