“And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.”
And all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Gideon — Shechem's complicity is also punished. The narrator attributes their destruction to divine justice and Jotham's curse (קִלְלַת יוֹתָם, kilelat Jotham). Jotham's oracular utterance operated through covenant mechanisms to bring about mutual destruction.
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