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When all the lords of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Judges 9:46 In-Context
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Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down.
45
All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.
46
On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
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When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there,
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he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”