Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?
And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech;