38Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.
39So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.
40And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.
41Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.
42Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.
43And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.
44And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.
