When Abim´elech had reigned three years over Israel,
while Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aro´er and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abim´elech his brother.
then God sent an evil spirit between Abim´elech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abim´elech: