Judges 9:48

Easy To Read Version

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.”

Cross References

Psalm 68:14

On Mount Zalmon,\par God scattered the enemy kings.\par They were like falling snow.\par

Psalm 68:15

Mount Bashan is a great mountain\par with many peaks.\par

Judges 9:47

Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered together.

Judges 9:49

So all those men cut branches and followed Abimelech. They piled the branches against the safest room [90] of the temple of the god El Berith. [91] Then they set the branches on fire and burned the people in the room. So about 1,000 men and women living near the Tower of Shechem died.

Judges 9:52

Abimelech and his men came to the tower to attack it. Abimelech went up to the door of the tower. He wanted to burn the tower.