Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

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Bible References

Put them

Judges 9:15
And the bramble saith unto the trees, If in truth ye are anointing me for king over you, come, take refuge in my shadow; and if not -- fire cometh out from the bramble, and devoureth the cedars of Lebanon.
Galatians 5:15
and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
James 3:16
for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

General references

Joshua 10:18
And Joshua saith, 'Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and appoint over it men to watch them;
Judges 9:52
And Abimelech cometh unto the tower, and fighteth against it, and draweth nigh unto the opening of the tower to burn it with fire,