Sowed it with salt - Expressing by this action his hatred, and his wish, that when utterly destroyed as a city, it might not even be a fruit…

Beat down the city. —Compare 2 Samuel 17:13; Micah 3:12.

Sowing it with salt—nothing could more clear…

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day By throwing stones or arrows into it: and he took the city ; it …

Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's…