Judges 9:48

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Abimelech and all the troops who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the troops who were with him, ‘Hurry and do what you have seen me do.’

Cross References

Judges 9:47

Then it was reported to Abimelech that all the citizens of the Tower of Shechem had gathered.

Judges 9:49

Each of the troops also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire; about a thousand men and women died, including all the men of the Tower of Shechem.

Judges 9:52

When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.