Judges 9:56 Meaning and Explanation
“Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:”
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Read Full Chapter →The narrator declares that God repaid Abimelech's wickedness in murdering his seventy brothers.
What Does Judges 9:56 Mean?
The narrator steps back to name the meaning of all that has happened: in this way God repaid the evil Abimelech did to his father's house when he killed his seventy brothers.
What looked like the chances of war was in truth the hand of God bringing justice. The verse lifts the whole bloody story into the light of God's righteous government, where no murder is forgotten and no crime escapes its recompense. The God who preserved Jotham and heard the cry of innocent blood has answered. Human evil may run its course for a season, but it runs at last into the justice of the Lord.
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What does Judges 9:56 mean?
The narrator declares that God repaid Abimelech's wickedness in murdering his seventy brothers.