Judges 9:57
Good News Translation
God also made the men of Shechem suffer for their wickedness, just as Jotham, Gideon's son, said they would when he cursed them.

New Revised Standard Version
and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.

Contemporary English Version
God also punished the people of Shechem for helping Abimelech. Everything happened just as Jotham's curse said it would.

New American Bible
God also brought all the wickedness of the people of Shechem back on their heads, for the curse of Jotham, son of Jerubbaal, overtook them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.

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The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.

upon them

Judges 9:20,45 But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech. . . .

Joshua 6:26 Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

1 Kings 16:34 In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.

Context
Abimelech's Punishment
56And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren. 57The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.
Cross References
Judges 9:24
And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.

Judges 9:56
And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

Judges 10:1
After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of Phua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:

1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

Judges 9:56
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