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.