Genesis 16:15; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 22:24; Judges 9:1-5; Judges 9:18
Abimelech’s mother was not reckoned among the wives, being, probably, one of the Canaanite population in Shechem Judges 9:28 : neither was Abimel...
Gideon Refuses a Kingdom, and Erects an Ephod. Long before the Israelites had any human kings. Yahweh was regarded as their Divine King, and Gideon...
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. His concubine - A lawful but secondary wife, whose...
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. No JFB commentary on these verses.
History of the Judges ( Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31 ) On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of Oppressions and Judges. T...
Shamgar ] the first of the 'minor' Judges. The name is mentioned in Judges 5:6 , though not as a 'saviour.' No Philistine oppression is mentioned t...
His concubine that was in Shechem. — In Judges 9:18 she is contemptuously called his “maid servant.” The sequel ( Judges 9:1-4 ) seems to show th...
ABIMELECH AND JOTHAM Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-57 THE history we are tracing moves from man to man; the personal influence of the hero is ev...
“Through Slaughter to a Throne” Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-6 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soo...
Following the deliverance from the oppression of Midian, Gideon had to deal with internal troubles. The people of Ephraim objected that he had not ca...
Although from the infirmities and corruptions of our fallen nature, many of the early followers of the Lord, had more than one wife, yet, the Holy Gh...
And his concubine that was in Shechem ,.... Which was not an harlot, but a secondary or half wife; such were generally taken from handmaids, and of...
And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. Ver. 31. And his concubine, ] i.e., His wife tho...
His concubine that was in Shechem She dwelt there, and he often went thither, either to execute judgment, or upon other occasions. Abimelech That...
GRIEVOUS WORDS AND A SOFT ANSWER (vv. 1-3) But the men of Ephraim were resentful that Gideon had called them so late rather than when he began h...
Israel's Return to Idolatry. B. C. 1249. ...
In Shechem; she dwelt there, and he oft came thither, either to execute judgment, or upon other occasions. Abimelech, i.e. my father the king ;...
‘ And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his own body (literally ‘going out of his thigh'), for he had many wives. And his concubine who was in...
CHAPTER 8 FINAL DEALING WITH THE ENEMY—GIDEON’S LAST DAYS. Judges 8:18-35 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 8:18 . Then said he , etc.] This must have...
Judges 6-8 In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could n...
Judges 8:16 . He taught the men of Succoth. The LXX read, he threshed them. This little city of forty or fifty families was blinded, in giving t...
Rule thou over us . .. for thou hast delivered us. Gideon’s after-life Many a man does well in times of difficulty and danger who fails enti...
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Gideon at his worst Man is a strange mixture of greatness and of littleness, of...
EXPOSITION Judges 8:22 , Judges 8:23 Rule thou , etc. The gratitude of Israel to their great deliverer, added to a sense that it woul...
The Consequences of the Campaign
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called, or, "and called his name," Abimelech ("My father is king"). I...
Shechem — She dwelt there, and he often came thither, either to execute judgment, or upon other occasions. Abimelech — That is, my father the king;...
31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he calledi Abimelech.