Judges 9:49 meaning and explanation
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
Judges 9:49, Berean Standard Bible
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Abimelech, the self-made king, has already slaughtered his seventy brothers and destroyed the city of Shechem. Here he turns on the leaders who had sheltered in the tower's inner chamber, using branches cut from Mount Zalmon to burn them alive, about a thousand men and women.
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