54 He quickly cried out to the servant who carried his armor, "Draw your sword and kill me. Don’t let it be said of me, ‘A woman killed him.’" So his servant stabbed him, and he died.
55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
56 Thus God paid back Abimelech for the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.
57 God also paid back the people of Shechem for their evil. The curse of Jotham, Jerubbaal’s son, had come upon them.