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Thebez

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Battles and sieges

c. 1150 BCAbimelech killed at the tower of Thebez Judg 9:50–55
Abimelech against the people of Thebez shut up in the tower. A woman drops a millstone on Abimelech's head; his armourbearer runs him through, and the army disperses.

Verses (2)

Judg 9:50: Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
2 Sam 11:21: Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

King James Version