Judges 9:47-49

Lexham English Bible

⁴⁷ It was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem had gathered. ⁴⁸ So Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all his army that were with him, and Abimelech took the ax^[a] in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and he lifted it and put it on his shoulder. And he said to the army that was with him, “What you have seen me do, quickly do also.” ⁴⁹ So the whole army cut down each one branch for himself and followed Abimelech, and they put them against the vault^[b] and set the vault ablaze with fire on those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.