Judges 9:44-46

EasyEnglish Bible

⁴⁴ Abimelech and his group of soldiers ran to stand at the city gate. They stopped people going back into the city. The other two groups attacked the people in the fields and killed them.

⁴⁵ Abimelech attacked the city all that day. He took the city and he killed all the people who lived there. Then he destroyed the city. He put salt all over it as a curse.

⁴⁶ The city's leaders who lived in the tower of Shechem heard the news. They went to hide in the strong building of El-berith's temple.