Judges 9:6 meaning and explanation
Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
Judges 9:6, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse records the crowning of Abimelech, one of Gideon's sons by a concubine from Shechem. After hiring reckless men with silver from the temple of Baal-berith, he murdered his seventy brothers at Ophrah, and only Jotham escaped.
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