32. So now, get up at night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.
33. In the morning at sunrise, get up early and attack the city. He and the people with him will come out to you, then you can do to them as you find opportunity.”
34. So Abimelek and all the people who were with him got up at night and lay in wait by Shechem in four companies.
35. When Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, then Abimelek and the people who were with him got up from their hiding places.
36. Gaal saw these people and said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the hilltops.”Zebul said to him, “The shadows of the hills look like men to you.”
37. Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down the middle of the land, and a company is coming by way of the Diviner’s Oak.”
38. Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, which said, ‘Who is Abimelek, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people you dismissed out of hand? Go now, I pray, and fight against them.”
39. So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought Abimelek.
40. Abimelek chased him, and Gaal fled from him. Many fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.
41. Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers from living in Shechem.
42. The next day the people went out into the field, and this was told to Abimelek.
43. So he took the people and divided them into three companies, and they laid in wait in the field. When the people came out from the city, he rose up against them and struck them down.
44. Abimelek and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the city gate. The two other combat units attacked everyone in the field and struck them down.
45. Abimelek fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people inside it; he tore down the city and spread salt over it.