Bible Explorer · Event · c. 1150 BC
After massacring his seventy brothers to reign over Shechem, Abimelech crushed a rebellion by razing Shechem and sowing it with salt, but was struck down at Thebez when a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head.
Date: c. 1150 BC · Note: Culmination of Jotham’s prophetic fable against Abimelech and the men of Shechem.
Judges 9:45-57