49. All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
50. Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it.
51. But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the leaders of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower.
52. So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.
53. But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, crushing his skull.
54. Then he called quickly to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that it will not be said of me, 'A woman slew him.'" So the young man pierced him through, and he died.
55. When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each departed to his home.
56. Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.