Judges 9:36-40
Judges 9:36
When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were people.”
Judges 9:37
And Gaal spoke yet again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the highest part of the land, and one unit is coming by way of the diviners’ oak.”
Judges 9:38
Then Zebul said to him, “Where then is your boasting with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you rejected? Go out now and fight them!”
Judges 9:39
So Gaal went out in the sight of the leaders of Shechem and fought Abimelech.
Judges 9:40
But Abimelech chased him, and he fled from him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.