OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 9:50

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

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Verse 50. Thebes, about 13 miles from Sichem, towards Scythopolis. Euseb.—Besieged. Hebrew and so forth “took,” as the sequel shews, (verse 52,) since Abimelech was killed, as he was attacking the tower or citadel, in the midst of the city. Calmet.

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