Judges 9:47
King James VersionSource notes
“And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.”
Context
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
49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.