^{38 Ref} Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.

³⁹ Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

^{40 Ref} Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.