Judges 9:15
9:15 The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose
me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches!
Otherwise
may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’
Judges 9:23
9:23 God sent a spirit to stir up hostility
between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal
to Abimelech.
Judges 9:56-57
9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.
9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.