Judges 9:50-52

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵⁰ Then Abimelech departing from thence came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.

⁵¹ And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of the city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the tower to defend themselves.

⁵² And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it: