^{38 Ref} Then 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.

³⁹ So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.

^{40 Ref} And 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.