38 Then Zebul said to him, “Where is all your big talk now? You were the one who asked why we should serve this man Abimelech. These are the men you were treating so scornfully. Go on out now and fight them.”
39 Gaal led the men of Shechem out and fought Abimelech.
40 Gaal fled, and Abimelech pursued him. Many were wounded, even at the city gate.
41 Abimelech lived in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem, so that they could no longer live there.
42 The next day Abimelech found out that the people of Shechem were planning to go out into the fields,
43 so he took his men, divided them into three groups, and hid in the fields, waiting. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he came out of hiding to kill them.
44 While Abimelech and his group hurried forward to guard the city gate, the other two companies attacked the people in the fields and killed them all.