Judges 9:23-25

New Century Version

²³ Then God sent an evil spirit to make trouble between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem so that the leaders of Shechem turned against him. ²⁴ Abimelech had killed Gideon’s^[a] seventy sons, his own brothers, and the leaders of Shechem had helped him. So God sent the evil spirit to punish them. ²⁵ The leaders of Shechem were against Abimelech then. They put men on the hilltops in ambush who robbed everyone going by. And Abimelech was told.