As being born out of regular wedlock, Abimelech would be brought up at first in his mother's family, and reckoned as belonging to it (Judges 9:2). It seems to have been of considerable position in Shechem. Shechem] still, as in Genesis 34, chiefly Canaanitish, in spite of being Joseph's burial-place (Joshua 24:32). Threescore and ten pieces of silver] between seven and eight pounds sterling.
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Judges 9:1
1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,