Judges 9:46-48

Amplified Bible

⁴⁶ When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard about it, they entered the inner chamber (stronghold) of the ^[a]temple of El-berith (the god of a covenant). ⁴⁷ Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were assembled together. ⁴⁸ So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, picked it up, and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the people with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do just as I have done.”