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Woman casts a millstone on Abimelech

Judges 9:50-9:53

9:50. Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.

9:51. There was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of the city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the tower to defend themselves.

9:52. Abimelech, coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and, approaching to the gate, endeavored to set fire to it:

9:53. Behold, a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.