49. Each person also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire around the people, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died — about 1,000 men and women.
50. Abimelech went to Thebez, camped against it, and captured it.
51. There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
52. When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
53. But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and fractured his skull.