Stood in the entering of the gate of the city, to prevent their retreat into the city, and give the other two companies opportunity to cut them off.
Related Commentaries of Judges 9:44
Judges 9:44
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.