“And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them 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.”
And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them on the hold, and set the hold on fire over them: so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women — The soldiers pile branches and set fire. The phrase 'died also' (וַיָּמוּתוּ, vayamtu) marks the death toll: about 1,000. The temple becomes a funeral pyre.
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