Judges 9:49

Modern English Version

So everyone likewise cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They placed them on the fortification and set the fortification on fire over them. So all the people of the Tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

Cross References

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

James 3:16

For where there is envying and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.

Judges 9:15

“The thorn bush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade. If not, let fire come out from the thorn bush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’

Judges 9:20

If not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and consume Abimelech!”

Judges 9:48

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him went up Mount Zalmon. He took an axe in his hand and cut off a tree branch, lifted it, and carried it on his shoulder. Then he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do the same.”

Judges 9:50

Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.