Judges 9:48

Revised Standard Version

And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done.”

Cross References

Psalm 68:14

When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.

Psalm 68:15

O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!

Judges 9:47

Abimelech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.

Judges 9:49

So every one of the people cut down his 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.

Judges 9:52

And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.