lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;
And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; (but) they did not so.
But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
And they gave him threescore and ten (pieces) of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.