he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, "Hurry and do what you have seen me do." Cross References Judges 9:47 And when Abimelech was told that all the leaders in the tower of Shechem were gathered there, Judges 9:49 So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women. Psalm 68:14 When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon. Treasury of Scripture And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people that were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. Zalmon Psalm 68:14 What ye Judges 7:17,18 Proverbs 1:11,12 me do. |