Set liers in wait for him. —The “for him” does not necessarily mean “to seize him,” but to his disadvantage. The disaffec…

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of
the mountains
Of Ebal …

Abimelech is seated on the throne his father refused. But how long does this glory last? Wait just three years, and see the bramble withered and bu…