⁵⁴ He quickly called out to the young man holding his armor, “Draw your sword, and finish me off, so that people won’t say a woman killed me.” So his attendant ran him through, and he died. ⁵⁵ When the men of Isra’el saw that Avimelekh was dead, they all went back home.

⁵⁶ This is how God paid back Avimelekh for the wrong he did to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.