38 Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now? With it you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have trashed? Now go out and fight him!”
39 So Gaal went out ahead of the lords of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.
40 But Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.
41 While Abimelech stayed in Arumah, Zebul drove Gaal and his relatives out so that they could not stay in Shechem.
42 Now it came to pass the next day that the people went out into the field, and it was reported to Abimelech.
43 So he took his people, divided them into three columns, and lay in ambush in the field. When he looked and saw the people were coming out of the city, he pounced on them and struck them down.
44 Then Abimelech and the column that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and the other two columns rushed on all who were in the open field and struck them down.