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Judges 9:49-53 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

49. So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelech. They piled the branches against the safest room of the temple of the god El Berith. Then they set the branches on fire and burned the people in the room. About 1000 men and women living near the Tower of Shechem died.

50. Then Abimelech and his men went to the city of Thebez and captured that city.

51. But inside the city there was a strong tower, so all the leaders and other men and women of that city ran to the tower. When the people were inside the tower, they locked the door behind them. Then they climbed up to the roof of the tower.

52. Abimelech and his men came to the tower to attack it. Abimelech went up to the door of the tower to burn it.

53. But, while Abimelech was standing at the door of the tower, a woman on the roof dropped a grinding stone on his head. The grinding stone crushed his skull.