“Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:”
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren — The narrator frames Abimelech's death as divine retribution (וַיָּשֶׁב אֱלֹהִים אֶת־רָעַת אָבִימֶלֶךְ, vayashev Elohim et-ra'at Abimelech). Covenant justice has operated: the fratricide is punished with the fratricide's death.
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