Judges 9:45-47

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁵ And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.

⁴⁶ And when they who dwelt in the tower of Sichem had heard this, they went into the temple of their god Berith where they had made a covenant with him, and from thence the place had taken its name, and it was exceeding strong.

⁴⁷ Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were gathered together,