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46
|Jueces 9:46|
On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
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47
|Jueces 9:47|
When Abimelech heard that they had assembled there,
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48
|Jueces 9:48|
he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an axe 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!”
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49
|Jueces 9:49|
So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelech. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire over the people inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.
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50
|Jueces 9:50|
Next Abimelech went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it.
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51
|Jueces 9:51|
Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women — all the people of the city — fled. They locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.
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52
|Jueces 9:52|
Abimelech went to the tower and stormed it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,
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53
|Jueces 9:53|
a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.
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54
|Jueces 9:54|
Hurriedly he called to his armour-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can’t say, `A woman killed him.’“ So his servant ran him through, and he died.
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|Jueces 9:55|
When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.
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