32. Now, you and the men who are with you: Get up tonight and set an ambush in the fields.
33. Then in the morning, at sunrise, rise early and rush on the city. Just as he and the men with him are marching out to face you, you can do to him whatever you wish."
34. So Abimelech and all the men who were with him got up that night and set an ambush around Shechem in four companies.
35. When Gaal, Ebed’s son, came out and stood in the entrance of the city’s gate, Abimelech and the men with him sprang up from the ambush.
36. Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul, "Look! People are coming down from the hilltops."Zebul replied to him, "The shadows on the hills just look like persons to you."
37. But Gaal spoke up again, "Look! People are coming down from Tabbur-erez, and one company is coming from the direction of Elon-meonenim."
38. Then Zebul replied to him, "Where’s all your talk now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we ought to serve him?’ Aren’t these the men you despised? Now march out and fight them!"
39. So Gaal marched out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.
40. Abimelech routed him, and he ran away. Many fell wounded, all the way up to the entrance of the gate.