Judges 9:44-46

International Children’s Bible

⁴⁴ Abimelech and his group ran to the entrance gate to the city. The other two groups ran out to the people in the fields and killed them. ⁴⁵ Abimelech and his men fought the city of Shechem all day. They captured it and killed its people. Then Abimelech tore down the city. And he threw salt^[a] over the ruins so nothing would ever grow there.

The Tower of Shechem

⁴⁶ The people who lived at the nearby Tower of Shechem heard what had happened to Shechem. So the leaders gathered in the safest room of the temple of the god Baal-of-the-Agreement.