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.
There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and citizens of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
At Thebez, who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? , Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the top of the wall so that he died? Why did you get so close to the wall? ” #– #then say, “Your servant Uriah the Hethite is dead also.” ’