Abimelech, Gideon’s son by a concubine, persuades Shechem to make him king and murders seventy of his brothers on one stone; only Jotham escapes and tells a fable warning that the bramble-king will consume them. Abimelech’s three-year tyranny ends as he and Shechem turn on each other; he is mortally wounded when a woman drops a millstone on his head, and God repays his wickedness.
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Judges 9
c. 1150 BCAbimelech murders his brothers to seize kingship, and he and Shechem destroy one another, as Jotham’s fable warned.
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