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Jdg_9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Ver. 45. He took the city, and slew the people.] There was, as at Athens when taken by Sulla, áíåëåçò óöáãç , a merciless massacre, the streets running down with blood. {a}
And beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.] Milan was so served by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, A.D. 1162, but rebuilt not long after, {b} as was likewise Shechem by Jeroboam. {1Ki_12:25} But here the bramble, or thistle, made good his motto, Nemo me impune lacessit. He dealt most barbarously with his native country, turning the place of his birth into a place of "nettles and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation," {Zep_2:9} as far as in him lay.
{a} Appian.
{b} Sigon. Naucler.