Judges 9:46-49 ▼

46 And all the masters of the Tower of Shechem hear, and go into the high place of the house of the god Berith,

47 and it is declared to Abimelech that all the masters of the Tower of Shechem have gathered themselves together,

48 and Abimelech goes up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who [are] with him, and Abimelech takes the great axe in his hand, and cuts off a bough of the trees, and lifts it up, and sets [it] on his shoulder, and says to the people who [are] with him, “What you have seen me do—hurry, do as I [have done].”

49 And every one of the people cuts down his bough and goes after Abimelech, and sets [them] at the high place, and burns the high place with fire by these, and also all the men of the Tower of Shechem die—about one thousand men and women.