²³ God stirred up animosity^(A) between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek.

²⁴ God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons,^(A) the shedding^(B) of their blood, might be avenged^(C) on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him^(D) murder his brothers.