Ambushes above the road

22Abimelech ruled over Israel for three years.

23Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech.

24so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

25Then the leaders of Shechem set men in ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed everyone who passed by them on the road; and it was reported to Abimelech.