Judges 9:48-50

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁸ Went up into mount Selmon he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do you out of hand.

⁴⁹ So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort they set it on fire: and so it came to pass that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the tower of Sichem.

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