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