After Abimelech had ruled over Israel for three years,
While Israel was living in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities on both sides of the Arnon for 300 years, why didn’t you try to recover them all that time?
Then Jotam ran away and fled, and went to Beer and remained there because of his brother Abimelech.
God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem. So the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech—
