“All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.”

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.