Judges 9:51 meaning and explanation

But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 9:51, Berean Standard Bible

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Judges 9 tells how Abimelech, son of Gideon (called Jerubbaal), seized kingship by murdering his seventy brothers, and how the city of Shechem, which backed him, later turned against him. In verse 51 the whole population of Thebez, men, women and leaders, flees into a fortified tower and bars themselves in, climbing to its roof.

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