Judges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.
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Judges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.
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Judges 9:42
Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.
Judges 9:43
And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.
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Judges 9:46
Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.
Judges 9:47
And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.
Judges 9:48
Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.
Judges 9:49
So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.
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