Then Gaal spoke again, ‘Look, troops are coming down from the central part of the land, and one unit is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.’
When Gaal saw the troops, he said to Zebul, ‘Look, troops are coming down from the mountaintops! ’ But Zebul said to him, ‘The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.’
Zebul replied, ‘What do you have to say now? You said, “Who is Abimelech that we should serve him? ” Aren’t these the troops you despised? Now go and fight them! ’
in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against ruins now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have been acquiring cattle and possessions and who live at the centre of the world.