Judges 9:49

Easy To Read Version

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.

Cross References

Galatians 5:15

If you continue hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful! You will completely destroy each other.

James 3:16

Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there will be confusion and every kind of evil.

Judges 9:15

But the thornbush said to the trees, “If you really want to make me king over you, come and find shelter in my shade. But if you do not want to do this, then let fire come out of the thornbush. Let the fire burn even the cedar trees of Lebanon.”

Judges 9:20

But leaders of Shechem and house of Millo, [82] if you have not acted right, then I hope that Abimelech destroys you. And I hope that Abimelech is destroyed too!”

Judges 9:48

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.”

Judges 9:50

Then Abimelech and his men went to the city of Thebez. Abimelech and his men captured that city.