Judges 9:46-52

The Voice

⁴⁶ When those leaders inside the tower of Shechem heard this news, all of them entered into the stronghold of the temple of El-berith. ⁴⁷ Abimelech learned that all the leaders were in the tower, and ⁴⁸ he took his men up Mount Zalmon. There he took an ax, cut a bundle of firewood, and hoisted it atop his shoulders, ordering his men to quickly do the same. ⁴⁹ When they had all cut and loaded their wood, they followed Abimelech back to the stronghold, where they piled the wood against the walls and set fire to it, killing about 1,000 men and women inside the tower of Shechem.

⁵⁰ Next, Abimelech went on to Thebez. He laid siege to it, captured it, and ⁵¹ discovered that in the city was a strong tower where the leaders and men and women of the city had locked themselves in to escape and had climbed onto the roof. ⁵² So he stormed the tower, ready to burn this tower as he had the other.