“That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.”
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided and abetted him in the murder of his brethren — The narrator frames divine retribution: the blood of 70 murdered sons cries out. Shechem's complicity makes them equally guilty. Blood guilt (דַּם־חִנָּם, dam chinnam, innocent blood) generates divinely-mediated consequences.
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