And Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon
A mountain near Shechem, and thought to be the same with Salmon in ( Psalms 68:14 ) which seems to have had its name from the shade of the trees which grew upon it:
he and all the people that were with him;
his whole army:
and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the
trees;
which grew upon Mount Zalmon:
and took it, and laid it on his shoulders;
and carried it along with him:
and said unto the people that were with him, what ye have seen me do,
make haste, and do as I have done;
take an axe, and every man cut down a bough with all possible haste, and lay it on his shoulder.