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Judges 9:45-47
New Century Version
Judges 9:45-47
New Century Version
45 Abimelech and his men fought the city of Shechem all day until they captured it and killed its people. Then he tore it down and threw salt[a] over the ruins.
The Tower of Shechem Burns
46 When the leaders who were in the Tower of Shechem heard what had happened to Shechem, they gathered in the safest room of the temple of El Berith. 47 Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered there.
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- 9:45 salt The salt would keep crops from growing there.
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