²⁴ God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons,^(A) the shedding^(B) of their blood, might be avenged^(C) on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him^(D) murder his brothers.

⁵⁶ Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

⁵⁷ God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.^(A) The curse of Jotham^(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

³² The Lord will repay^(A) him for the blood he shed,^(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa^(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better^(D) men and more upright than he.

³³ May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the Lord’s peace forever.”