Judges 9:45
Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.
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Judges 9:45
Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.
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Judges 9:42
On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Judges 9:43
He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.
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Judges 9:46
When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
Judges 9:47
Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
Judges 9:48
Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
Judges 9:49
All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
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