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Thebez

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Judges 9:50: Abimelech goes to Thebez, encamps against Thebez, and takes it. At 9:51–53 there is a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city flee there; Abimelech comes near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire, and a certain woman casts an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and breaks his skull.

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2SA 11:18–25, engwebp
¹⁸Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
¹⁹and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
²⁰it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
²¹Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
²²So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
²³The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
²⁴The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
²⁵Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
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JDG 9:50–55, engwebp
⁵⁰Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
⁵¹But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
⁵²Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
⁵³A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
⁵⁴Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
⁵⁵When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Thebez” by name and 2 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Tubas (confidence 611 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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Tubas
OpenBible.info confidence 611 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.32222, 35.36861
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Thebez” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — The upper millstone a woman casts at Thebez, and the death of Abimelech

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Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

2 Samuel 11:21 Open that verse

Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

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Entry: Thebez (place-thebez)
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Current wording: Judges 9:50: Abimelech goes to Thebez, encamps against Thebez, and takes it. At 9:51–53 there is a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city flee there; Abimelech comes near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire, and a certain woman casts an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and breaks his skull.
Cited evidence: 2SA 11:18–25, engwebp / JDG 9:50–55, engwebp
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