Threescore and ten persons. — See Note on. Judges 9:5.
The son of his maidservant. — The term is intentionally contemptuous. It seems clear from Judges 8:31; Judges 9:1, that she was not a slave, but even of high birth among the Canaanites.
Related Commentaries of Judges 9:18
Judges 9:18
18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)