Judges 9:46-48

International Children’s Bible

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. ⁴⁷ Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered there. ⁴⁸ So he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon, near Shechem. Abimelech took an ax and cut some branches. Then he put them on his shoulders. He said to all his men with him, “Hurry! Do what I have done!”