Abimelech was fatally wounded at the hands of an inferior enemy, a woman at that. But not even a woman of note; the text speaks of just a certain woman,
a nobody. This is the height of humiliation in the warrior culture of the day.1
Abimelech was fatally wounded at the hands of an inferior enemy, a woman at that. But not even a woman of note; the text speaks of just a certain woman,
a nobody. This is the height of humiliation in the warrior culture of the day.1
53 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.