Judges 9:49-51

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁹ So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort they set it on fire: and so it came to pass that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the tower of Sichem.

⁵⁰ Then Abimelech departing from thence came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.

⁵¹ And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of the city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the tower to defend themselves.