Judges Chapter 9 verse 56 Holy Bible
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
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In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
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Thus God requited the crime of Abim'elech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
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Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
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Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
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Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
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and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 56. - Which he did unto his father. It is remarkable that the sacred writer, in calling attention to the righteous vengeance which fell upon the head of Abimelech, marks especially the conduct of Abimelech as undutiful to his father (see Exodus 21:17; Matthew 15:4; cf. also Genesis 9:24-26).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(56, 57) Thus.--These impressive verses give the explanation of the whole narrative. They are inserted to show that God punishes both individual and national crimes, and that men's pleasant vices are made the instruments to scourge them. The murderer of his brothers "on one stone" is slain by a stone flung on his head, and the treacherous idolaters are treacherously burnt in the temple of their idol.
