Judges 9:46-48
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
46 When all the people of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-be′rith. 47 Abim′elech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 And Abim′elech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abim′elech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done.”
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