Judges 9:53
And behold a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ecce una mulier fragmen molæ desuper jaciens, illisit capiti Abimelech, et confregit cerebrum ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔρριψεν γυνὴ μία κλάσμα ἐπιμυλίου ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν Ἀβειμέλεχ, καὶ ἔκλασεν τὸ κρανίον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתַּשְׁלֵ֞ךְ אִשָּׁ֥ה אַחַ֛ת פֶּ֥לַח רֶ֖כֶב עַל רֹ֣אשׁ אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַתָּ֖רִץ אֶת גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Above, or "of the upper millstone," according to the Hebrew and Septuagint. Pyrrhus met with a similar fate at Argos. Plutarch observes, (in Scylla) that the Lacedemonians did not like to attack walls, because the bravest men are there often slain by the greatest cowards. (Calmet)
Hence Joab puts this advice in the mouth of David, that it is imprudent to come too near the walls, 2 Kings xi. 21.
Skull, (cerebrum) "brain." Yet the tyrant's understanding was not perhaps so much impaired, as to excuse him for commanding his armour-bearer to kill him. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.