Judges 9:47-49

New Century Version

⁴⁷ Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered there. ⁴⁸ So he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon, near Shechem. Abimelech took an ax and cut some branches and put them on his shoulders. He said to all those with him, “Hurry! Do what I have done!” ⁴⁹ So all those men cut branches and followed Abimelech and piled them against the safest room of the temple. Then they set them on fire and burned the people inside. So all the people who were at the Tower of Shechem also died—about a thousand men and women.