Judges 9:49

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So every one of the troops cut down a bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.

Cross References

Galatians 5:15

If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

James 3:16

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.

Judges 9:15

And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Judges 9:20

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”

Judges 9:48

So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the troops who were with him. Abimelech took an ax in his hand, cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the troops with him, “What you have seen me do, do quickly, as I have done.”

Judges 9:50

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