When Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, Abimelech and the troops with him rose from the ambush.
When Gaal son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his kinsfolk, the lords of Shechem put confidence in him.
So Abimelech and all the troops with him got up by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
And when Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “The shadows on the mountains look like people to you.”