BRAGADAJAH 739
Now as soon as
Jotham had delivered his denouncement of Abimelech and the men of Shechem, and
knowing his life would be in danger as soon as Abimelech heard his words, he
ran away to Beer and dwelt there. And it
came to pass that after Abimelech had reigned over Israel for three years, God
sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem, and the men of
Shechem dealt treacherously with him, that the cruelty dealt with the seventy
men of his brethren whom he had slain be laid upon Abimelech their brother
which slew them; and also the men who aided him. And the men of Shechem set men
to lay in wait for him in the top of the mountain and they robbed all that came
along that way by them and it was told to Abimelech. And Gaal the son of Ebed came
with his brethren and went over to Shechem and the men of Shechem put their
confidence in him. And they came out
unto the fields and gathered their vineyards and trod the grapes and made merry
and went into the house of their gods and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.
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