And who shall go with his friend into the forest to cut wood, and his hand thrust out with the axe to out down the tree, and the iron slipped from the wood and found his friend, and he died; he shall flee to one of these cities, and he lived:

And Abimelech will go up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that with him; and Abimelech will take axes in his hand, and he will cut boughs of the trees, and will lift up and will put upon his shoulder, and he will say to the people which are with him, What ye saw I did, hasten, do like me.

And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings.

For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

And he will give the stroke of his front against thy walls, and with his sword he will tear down thy towers.

And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.