46.示劍樓的人聽見了,就躲入巴力.比利土廟的衛所。
On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
47.有人告訴亞比米勒說:「示劍樓的人都聚在一處。」
When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there,
48.亞比米勒和跟隨他的人就都上撒們山。亞比米勒手拿斧子,砍下一根樹枝,扛在肩上,對跟隨他的人說:「你們看我所行的,也當趕緊照樣行。」
he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, 「Quick! Do what you have seen me do!」
49.眾人就各砍一枝,跟隨亞比米勒,把樹枝堆在衛所的四圍,放火燒了衛所,以致示劍樓的人都死了,男女約有一千。
So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.