* That the.
  1Sa 15:33  1Ki 2:32  Es 9:25  Ps 7:16  Mt 23:34-36 
 * aided him in the killing of.  Heb. strengthened his hands to
   kill.
   Sooner or later, God will make inquisition for blood, and will
   return it on the heads of those that shed it.  Accessaries
   will be reckoned with, as well as principals, in that and
   other sins.  The Shechemites, who countenanced Abimelech's
   pretensions, aided and abetted him in his bloody project, and
   avowed the fact by making him king after he had done it, must
   fall with him, fall by him, and fall first.  Those that
   combine together to do wickedly, are justly dashed in pieces
   one against another.  Blood cannot be a lasting cement to any
   interest.