Discovery BoxJudges 9:51 
Context9:51 There was a fortified 1 tower 2 in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.
Judges 9:49
Context9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches 3 against the stronghold and set fire to it. 4 All the people 5 of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.
1 tn Or “strong.”
2 tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.
3 tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”
5 tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.
