Judges 9:22-58
After Abimelek had governed Israel three years, God stirred up animosity between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek. God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.
Scattered salt: Symbolically consigning the city to permanent desolation. It was in fact rebuilt 150 years later in the time of Jeroboam I.
Why?
God does not allow the violent and those who shed innocent people's blood to live in world peace. God is righteousness so three years later God stirred people in Chechem against Abimelek, and killed Abimelek by a woman.
Everyone proud of his power or ability will fall, only the man who humbles himself before the Lord will be lifted up.
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原來稱兄道弟的示劍人，現在以詭詐相待亞比米勒。結果兩敗俱傷。亞比米勒不善待支持他的人，亞比米勒靠殺人做王，也會被人殺，死的時候受屈辱。雙方已經給魔鬼留地步。讓惡鬼降在他們中間，亞比米勒和示劍人錯在先。
基甸看來不想做王但是成為宗教領袖比做王更遭。以私心來做王，給他兒子壞榜樣。我們要留給我們後代什麼樣的價值觀?有膽略平庸的人，不見得沒有野心，當他有機會的時候，可能就開始行惡。亞比米勒有膽量、才華、領袖魅力，可惜用在自己，滿足自己的私心。
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How?
Be humble and do the thing good to others, God is my shepherd and my Lord!
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