47. And it was reported to Aḇimeleḵ that all the masters of the tower of Sheḵem were gathered together.
48. So Aḇimeleḵ went up to Mount Tsalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Aḇimeleḵ took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry, do as I have done.”
49. And all the people likewise cut down each one his own branch and followed Aḇimeleḵ, and put them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire above them, so that all the men of the tower of Sheḵem died, about a thousand men and women.
50. Aḇimeleḵ then went to Thĕḇĕts, and he encamped against Thĕḇĕts and captured it.
51. However, there was a strong tower in the city, and all the men and women and all the masters of the city fled there and shut themselves in, and went up to the top of the tower.
52. And Aḇimeleḵ came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
53. But a certain woman dropped an upper millstone on the head of Aḇimeleḵ, and crushed his skull.
54. He then immediately called the young man, his armour-bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
55. And when the men of Yisra’ĕl saw that Aḇimeleḵ was dead, each one went to his own place.
56. Thus did Elohim repay the evil of Aḇimeleḵ, which he had done to his father to slay his seventy brothers.
57. And all the evil of the men of Sheḵem Elohim turned back on their own heads, and the curse of Yotham son of Yerubba‛al came on them.