49 Then all the people also cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire with them so all the men of the tower of Shechem [a]died also, about a thousand men and women.

50 ¶ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and besieged Thebez, and took it.

51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all the chiefs of the city, and shut it to them, and went up to the top of the tower.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:49 Meaning, that all were destroyed as well they in the tower, as the other.

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