Abimelech ben Gideon

• General Notes
  • Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman     thro w an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at     Thebez? Why did you go sonear the wall?'--then you shall say, `Your   servant Uriah t he Hittite is dead also.' " ga'-al (ga`al,  "rejection," or "loathing"; according to Wellhausen,    "be etle,"  HPN, 110):  A man of whose antecedents nothing is known, except that  his father's  n ame was Ebed. He undertook to foment and lead a  rebellion on the    part of the inhabitants s Abimelech my father a  king, or father of a king 3. A son of Gideon (Judges 9:1), who was  proclaimed king after the     deat h of his father (Judges  8:33-9:6).).One of his first acts was to  murder  his brothers,  seventy in number, "on one stone," at Ophrah. Abimelech 3. Son of  Gideon -- Judges 8:31; 9; 2 Samuel 11:21 Abim?אשelech (father of  the king) 3. Son of the judge Gideon by his Shechemite concubine.  (Judges 8:31)  ( B.C. 1322-1319.) After his father's death he  murdered all his     b