Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
Now millstones are sort of lava kinds of rock and there are millstones-I've seen them four feet high. And they have tracks in which the millstone rolls. It is chiseled out to where it's round, has a hole in the middle of it and then the stick or the post would go through the center of the millstone and it would roll. And they would often hook an oxen to it and they had this stone groove that went around in a circle. And the oxen, as he would go around, would pull the stick and it would cause this millstone to go around the groove. And the ladies would come and just pour their wheat in the little groove and as the millstone would go by and it'd grind the wheat into flour. And so they'd have their stone ground wheat by these millstones. But these millstones, probably, many of them weigh, that I have seen, weigh as much as four, five hundred pounds.Interesting that Jesus said concerning teachers that would destroy the faith in the heart of a child, it would be better for them if a millstone were hung around their neck and they were tossed in the Sea of Galilee that they to offend one of these little children. "Now gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon this little child." Hey, no he wasn't so meek and mild. He was pretty tough on these false teachers and those that would destroy faith in the heart of a child. He said, "Man, you know, put them in concrete and dump them in the ocean you know." He would've been a good Mafia exterminator. Really he said, "Put a millstone on her neck, throw him in the sea." You'd never come up for sure.Well now there was this woman in the tower and she had a piece of a millstone. Here's old Abimelech down there, you know, trying to set the door on fire and she "knock" drops the millstone and cracks his skull. And so he's lying there and he says to his armourbearer, "Quick, thrust me through. I don't want them, I don't want them to say a woman killed me." Pride, look what it would do, even when you're dying, you know. What difference does it make? And so the guy thrust him through anyhow and so they didn't say a woman killed him. So Abimelech was wiped out. And the evil that he did against Gideon's sons was sort of recompensed. "