When Abim´elech had reigned three years over Israel,
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:
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?