When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
"And Jotham ... went to Beer, and dwelt there"  (Judges 9:21).  "`Beer' simply means `well'; and there were many places in Israel that could have been indicated by this."[16]