Jueces 9:54

54 Enseguida él le dijo a su joven escudero: «¡Saca tu espada y mátame! ¡Que no se diga que una mujer mató a Abimelec!». Así que el joven lo atravesó con su espada, y él 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 Entonces Abimelec los siguió para atacar la torre; pero cuando se preparaba para prenderle fuego a la entrada,

53 desde el techo, una mujer tiró una piedra de molino, que cayó sobre la cabeza de Abimelec, y le partió el cráneo.

54 Enseguida él le dijo a su joven escudero: «¡Saca tu espada y mátame! ¡Que no se diga que una mujer mató a Abimelec!». Así que el joven lo atravesó con su espada, y él murió.

55 Cuando los hombres de Abimelec lo vieron muerto, se desbandaron y regresaron a sus casas.

56 De esa forma, Dios castigó a Abimelec por el mal que había hecho contra su padre al matar a sus setenta hermanos.