Judges 9:48-49
9:48 He and all his men
went up on Mount Zalmon. He
took an ax
in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it
on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!”
9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches
against the stronghold and set fire to it.
All the people
of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.
Judges 9:2
9:2 “Tell
all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want
to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’”
Judges 14:10
14:10 Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.
Judges 15:16
15:16 Samson then said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey
I have left them in heaps;
with the jawbone of a donkey
I have struck down a thousand men!”