45. And Avimelech fought against the Ir all that day; and he took the Ir, and slaughtered the people that was therein, and destroyed the Ir, and sowed it with melach (salt).
46. And when all the ba'alei migdal Shechem heard that, they entered into the stronghold of the bais el brit.
47. And it was told Avimelech, that all the ba'alei migdal Shechem were gathered together.
48. And Avimelech got him up to Mt Tzalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Avimelech took axes in his yad, and cut down a branch from the etzim (trees), and lifted it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
49. And kol haAm likewise cut down every man his branch, and followed Avimelech, and piled them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on eish over them; so that all the anshei migdal Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
50. Then went Avimelech to Tevetz, and encamped against Tevetz, and captured it.
51. But there was a migdal oz within the Ir, and there fled all the anashim and nashim, and all ba'alei haIr, and locked it after them, and got them up to the top of the migdal.
52. And Avimelech came unto the migdal, and fought against it, and drew near unto the petach of the migdal to burn it with eish.
53. And a certain woman dropped an upper millstone upon Avimelech's head, and cracked his gulgolet (skull).
54. Then he called hastily unto the na'ar his armorbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy cherev, and slay me, that men say not of me, An isha slaughtered him. And his na'ar thrust him through, and he died.
55. And when the Ish Yisroel saw that Avimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
56. Thus Elohim repaid the wickedness of Avimelech, which he did unto his av, in slaying his seventy brethren;
57. And all the evil of the anshei Shechem did Elohim render upon their heads: and upon them came the Kelalat Yotam ben Yerubaal.