⁴⁹ 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.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition,^(A) there you find disorder and every evil practice.

¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

²⁰ But if you have not, let fire come out^(A) from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem^(B) and Beth Millo,^(C) and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!”

¹⁵ “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade;^(A) but if not, then let fire come out^(B) of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’^(C)