Judges 9:48

Tree of Life Version

he and all the people with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Then Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees and lifted it up and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you’ve seen me do, hurry and do likewise.”

Cross References

Psalm 68:14

When you lie among the campfires, wings of a dove were covered with silver and her feathers with shimmering gold.

Psalm 68:15

When Shaddai scattered kings there, it was snowing on Zalmon.

Judges 9:47

When Abimelech was told that all the lords of Shechem’s Tower had gathered there,

Judges 9:49

So all the people likewise each cut down his branch and followed Abimelech. He laid them against the vault and set the vault on fire over them. So all the people of Shechem’s Tower also died—about a thousand men and women.

Judges 9:52

So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the door of the tower to burn it with fire.