Having made a disastrous step Abimelech had to dig deep on his father's example without the spiritual revelation that carried therein. God lets the curse of Jotham take effect. Abimelech speaks to his men whom he divided into three companies(v.43), "What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done./And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women(vv.38-49).
The Spirit narrates the end of Abimelech where the symbol of millstone is the rock of offense. Similarly when God wants to make an end of Babylon,'And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone'(Re.18:21)
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire./And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull (vv.52-53)"
Having made a disastrous step Abimelech had to dig deep on his father's example without the spiritual revelation that carried therein. God lets the curse of Jotham take effect. Abimelech speaks to his men whom he divided into three companies(v.43), "What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done./And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women(vv.38-49).
The Spirit narrates the end of Abimelech where the symbol of millstone is the rock of offense. Similarly when God wants to make an end of Babylon,'And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone'(Re.18:21)
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire./And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull (vv.52-53)"
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