The people went out into the field To their usual employments about their land. He divided them into three companies Whereof he kept one with himself, (Judges 9:44,) and put the rest under other commanders. Abimelech stood in the entering of the gate To prevent the retreat of the people into the city, and to give the other two companies opportunity to cut them off.
Related Commentaries of Judges 9:42
Judges 9:42-44
42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.