Judges 9:45
King James VersionSource notes
“And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.”
Context
42And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
43And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
44And Abimelech, and the company that with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two companies ran upon all that in the fields, and slew them.
45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
46And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
48And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid on his shoulder, and said unto the people that with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, do as I