When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the troops.
Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.
Immediately he called to the young man who carried his armor and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, so people will not say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So the young man thrust him through, and he died.
Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;