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And Abim'elech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abim'elech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done."
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So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abim'elech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
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Then Abim'elech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
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But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower.
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And Abim'elech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
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And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abim'elech's head, and crushed his skull.
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Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
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And when the men of Israel saw that Abim'elech was dead, they departed every man to his home.
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Thus God requited the crime of Abim'elech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
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and God also made all the wickedness of the men of Shechem fall back upon their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubba'al.