When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too; then quarrelling and dishonour will cease.
Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.
He quickly called his armour-bearer and said to him, ‘Draw your sword and kill me, or they’ll say about me, “A woman killed him.” ’ So his armour-bearer ran him through, and he died.
In this way, God brought back Abimelech’s evil #– #the evil that Abimelech had done to his father when he killed his seventy brothers.