There were some people that lived at the Tower of Shechem. [86] When the people of that place heard what had happened to Shechem, they gathered together in the safest room [87] of the temple of the god El Berith. [88]
So Abimelech and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. [89] Abimelech took an axe and cut off some branches. He carried those branches on his shoulders. Then Abimelech said to the men with him, “Hurry! Do the same thing that I have done.”