Judges 9:46-48

Modern English Version

⁴⁶ When the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard this, they entered the fortified temple of El-Berith. ⁴⁷ Abimelek was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered together. ⁴⁸ So Abimelek and all the people who were with him went up Mount Zalmon. He took an axe in his hand and cut off a tree branch, lifted it, and carried it on his shoulder. Then he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do the same.”