And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Þerfor with strijf þei kittiden doun bowis of þe trees, and sueden þe duyk; whiche cumpassiden and brenten þe tour; and so it was doon, þat with smooke and fier a thousynde of men weren slayn, men togidere and wymmen, of þe dwelleris of þe tour of Sichem.