009:045 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. 009:046 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith. 009:047 It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 009:048 Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. 009:049 All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. 009:050 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 009:051 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower. 009:052 Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 009:053 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. 009:054 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died. 009:055 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place. 009:056 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers; 009:057 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 010:001 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. 010:002 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. 010:003 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years. 010:004 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. 010:005 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. 010:006 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods