And it was told Abimelech,.... Who had his spies about, and particularly to observe the motions of the men in this tower:
that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together; in the hold of the temple of Baalberith.
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Judges 9:47
47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.