07:009:043 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. 07:009:044 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them. 07:009:045 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. 07:009:046 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. 07:009:047 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 07:009:048 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. 07:009:049 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them 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. 07:009:050 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 07:009:051 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. 07:009:052 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 07:009:053 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. 07:009:054 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. 07:009:055 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. 07:009:056 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 07:009:057 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.