NET Bible
"Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it."
— Judges 9:50, NET Bible
“Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.”
“Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. ”
“Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.”
“Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.”
“Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.”
“Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.”
Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.
He and all his men went up on Mount Zalmon. He took an ax in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it on his shoulder and said to his men,“Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!”
So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the stronghold and set fire to it. All the people of the Tower of Shechem died– about a thousand men and women.
Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.
There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.
Abimelech came and attacked the tower. When he approached the entrance of the tower to set it on fire,
a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.