When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along by the borders of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time?
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
