47When Abimelech heard that they had assembled there,
47When Abimelech heard that they had assembled there,
44 Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance to the city gate. Then two companies rushed upon those in the fields and struck them down.
45 All that day Abimelech pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.
46 On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
47 When Abimelech heard that they had assembled there,
48 he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, "Quick! Do what you have seen me do!"
49 So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelech. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire over the people inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.
9:47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:47Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were gathered together,
9:47And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:47Abim'elech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:47And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:47And it was told to Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were assembled.
9:47It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:47and it is declared to Abimelech that all the masters of the tower of Shechem have gathered themselves together,
9:47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.