Abimelech

With his own company, assaulting and besieging the city: whilst the two other companies chased the enemies that were scattered about the field.

And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.

Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were gathered together,

Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do ye out of hand.

So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it on fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the town of Sichem.

Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.

And Abimelech, coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and, approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:

And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.

And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of Phua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim: