And so Abimelech reigned over Israel for three years.
And though he has lived in Heshbon, and its villages, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan for three hundred years, why have you, for such long a time, put forward nothing about this claim?
And when he had said these things, he fled and went away to Beer. And he lived in that place, out of fear of Abimelech, his brother.
And the Lord put a very grievous spirit between Abimelech and the inhabitants of Shechem, who began to detest him,