And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his home.
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel; for Joab restrained them.
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;