Judges 9:47

47 Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered there.

Judges 9:47 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:47

And it was told Abimelech
Who had his spies about, and particularly to observe the motions of the men in this tower:

that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together;
in the hold of the temple of Baalberith.

Judges 9:47 In-Context

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 saltn over the ruins.

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.

48 So he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon, near Shechem. Abimelech took an ax and cut some branches and put them on his shoulders. He said to all those with him, "Hurry! Do what I have done!"

49 So all those men cut branches and followed Abimelech and piled them against the safest room of the temple. Then they set them on fire and burned the people inside. So all the people who were at the Tower of Shechem also died -- about a thousand men and women.