54Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say, 'A woman killed him.' " So his servant ran him through, and he died.


In Context

51 Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women- all the people of the city-fled. They locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.

52 Abimelech went to the tower and stormed it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,

53 a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.

54 Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say, 'A woman killed him.' " So his servant ran him through, and he died.

55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

56 Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

Judges 9:54 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:54And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily unto the young man his armorbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, |Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, 'A woman killed him.'| And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, |Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:54and he calleth hastily unto the young man bearing his weapons, and saith to him, 'Draw thy sword, and thou hast put me to death, lest they say of me — A woman slew him;' and his young man pierced him through, and he dieth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.