Judges 9:51KJV

Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 51 of 57

"But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower."
Judges 9:51

In context

49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

51But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

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