Shìshījì 9:53

53 Yǒu yī gè fùrén bǎ yī kuaì shàng mòshí pāo zaì Yàbǐmǐlè de tóu shàng , dǎpò le tāde nǎo gú .

Shìshījì 9:53 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:53

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone
Of the upper millstone, as the word signifies, which is observed by Jarchi and other Jewish commentators; this with other stones being carried up to the top of the tower, to do what execution they could with them: and a woman observing Abimelech making up to the door of the tower, took up this piece of millstone, and threw it down

upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull;
she did it with that view, though it may as well be rendered, or "she", or "it broke his skull" ^F18; it made a fracture in it, which was mortal. Abendana observes, and so others, that that was measure for measure, a righteous retaliation, that as he had slain seventy of his brethren on one stone, he should die by means of a stone.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (wtlglg ta Urtw) "et confregit cranium ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Tigurine version.

Shìshījì 9:53 In-Context

51 Chéng zhōng yǒu yī zuò jiāngù de lóu . chéng lǐ de zhòngrén , wúlùn nánnǚ , dōu taó jìn lóu qù , guān shàng mén , shàng le lóu dǐng .

52 Yàbǐmǐlè dào le lóu qián gōngdǎ , āijìn lóu mén , yào yòng huǒ fùnshāo .

53 Yǒu yī gè fùrén bǎ yī kuaì shàng mòshí pāo zaì Yàbǐmǐlè de tóu shàng , dǎpò le tāde nǎo gú .

54 Tā jiù jímáng hǎnjiào ná tā bīngqì de shàonián rén , duì tā shuō , bá chū nǐde dāo lái , shā le wǒ ba . miǎndé rén yìlùn wǒ shuō , tā wèi yī gè fùrén suǒ shā . yúshì shàonián rén bǎ tā cī tòu , tā jiù sǐ le .

55 Yǐsèliè rén jiàn Yàbǐmǐlè sǐ le , biàn gè huí zìjǐ de dìfang qù le .