52And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:
52And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:
49 So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort they set it on fire: and so it came to pass that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the tower of Sichem.
50 Then Abimelech departing from thence came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.
51 And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of the city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the tower to defend themselves.
52 And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:
53 And behold a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.
54 And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him.
9:52Abimelech went to the tower and stormed it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,
9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and drew near unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52And Abim'elech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:52And Abimelech cometh unto the tower, and fighteth against it, and draweth nigh unto the opening of the tower to burn it with fire,
9:52And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.