Judges 9:55
Good News Translation
When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

New Revised Standard Version
When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

Contemporary English Version
And when the Israelite soldiers saw that their leader was dead, they went back home.

New American Bible
When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all left for their homes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.

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And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.

2 Samuel 18:16 And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

2 Samuel 20:21,22 The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab: Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall. . . .

1 Kings 22:35,36 And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. . . .

Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

Context
Abimelech's Punishment
54And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him. 55And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.56And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.…
Cross References
Judges 9:54
And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him.

Judges 9:56
And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

Judges 9:54
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