Abimelech

Avimelekh and his group rushed forward and occupied the entrance to the city gate, while the other two groups attacked all those in the field and killed them.

Avimelekh fought against the city all that day; captured it, killed its people, destroyed its buildings and sowed its land with salt.

Avimelekh was told that all the men from the Sh'khem fortress had gathered together;

so he led all his men up to Mount Tzalmon, where he took an axe in his hand, cut a branch off a tree, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to those with him, "Quick! Do just what you saw me do!"

They all did likewise, each man cutting off his branch; and they followed Avimelekh. They put the branches up against the stronghold, set them on fire, and burned down the stronghold; so that all the people from the Sh'khem fortress died, about a thousand men and women.

Then Avimelekh went to Tevetz, set up camp against Tevetz and captured it.

However, when Avimelekh approached the tower, attacked it, and then came up close to the tower's door in order to burn it down,

When the men of Isra'el saw that Avimelekh was dead, they all went back home.

This is how God paid back Avimelekh for the wrong he did to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

After Avimelekh there arose to save Isra'el Tola the son of Pu'ah, the son of Dodo, from the tribe of Yissakhar. He lived in Shamir, in the hills of Efrayim.