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.