Judges 9:24-26

New Century Version

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.

²⁶ A man named Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers moved into Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem trusted him.