John Gill Commentary Judges 9:53

"And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech`s head, and brake his skull." — Judges 9:53 (ASV)

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone
Of the upper millstone, as the word signifies, which is observed by Jarchi and other Jewish commentators; this with other stones being carried up to the top of the tower, to do what execution they could with them: and a woman observing Abimelech making up to the door of the tower, took up this piece of millstone, and threw it down

upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull ;
she did it with that view, though it may as well be rendered, or "she", or "it broke his skull" ^F18 ; it made a fracture in it, which was mortal. Abendana observes, and so others, that that was measure for measure, a righteous retaliation, that as he has slain seventy of his brethren on one stone, he should die by means of a stone.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F18: (wtlglg ta Urtw) "et confregit cranium ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Tigurine version.