Judges 9:46-49

46All the citizens of Shechem’s Tower heard about it and went into the basement of the temple of El Berith.

47When Abimelech was told that they had gathered there,

48he and all his men went to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took an ax, cut some brushwood, and carried it on his shoulder. He told his men, “Hurry and do what you’ve seen me do!”

49So all his troops also cut brushwood and followed Abimelech. They piled the brushwood on top of the basement and set it on fire with the people inside. So all the people in Shechem’s Tower died too. There were about a thousand men and women.