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Judges 9:54
“Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
Verse in context — Judges 9
52
Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
53
A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
54
Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died.
55
When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
56
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
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