¹⁵ “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade;^(A) but if not, then let fire come out^(B) of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’^(C)

⁴⁵ All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city^(A) and scattered salt^(B) over it.

⁵⁶ Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

⁵⁷ God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.^(A) The curse of Jotham^(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.