Judges 9:57

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.^[a]

Judges 9:57 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:57

And all the evil of the men of Shechem
In aiding Abimelech to slay his brethren, and in making him king after so foul a fact committed:

did God render upon their heads;
by suffering Abimelech to beat down their city, and destroy the inhabitants of it, and by burning the hold in which the men of the tower of Shechem were, and them in it:

and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal;
both upon Abimelech, and the men of Shechem, they being destroyed by one another, as Jotham imprecated they might, and foretold they would, see ( Judges 9:20 ) .

Judges 9:57 In-Context

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Jdg 9:20