Zalmon - A lofty and thickly-wooded hill, as the etymology of the name (“shady”) implies, in the immediate neighborhood of Shechem: perhaps …

To mount Zalmon. — Evidently the nearest spot where he could get wood for his hideous design. Zalmon means shady. In Psal…

And Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon
A mountain near Shechem, and thought to be the same with Salmon in ([Refere…

Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's…