The Second Battle of Shechem occurred in 1233 BC when the Israelite ruler Abimelech crushed a rebellion at Shechem and razed the city.
The day after his successful ambush of the rebellious Gaal, the Shechemites went out into the fields, and Abimelech divided his army into three companies and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the Shechemites coming out of the city, he rose against them and killed them. Abimelech and his company stood at the city gates while two companies rushed on all who were in the fields and killed them. Abimelech proceeded to take the city. killed the people within it, razed the city, and sowed it with salt. When the lords of Shechem heard of it, they retreated to the temple of El-berith. Abimelech proceeded to go to Mount Zalmon, bid his men cut up brush, and laid the brush against the Tower of Shechem, before setting it alight and killing the Shechemite lords and the remaining 1,000 men and women of the city as they cowered in their lofty tower.