When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
While Israel dwelled in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time?
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelled there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: