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Judges 8
²⁹ Then Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives.
³¹ And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
³² Now Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
³³ So it was, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-Berith their god.
³⁴ Thus the children of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side;
³⁵ nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (Gideon) in accordance with the good he had done for Israel.
Judges 9
¹ Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
² "Please speak in the hearing of all the men of Shechem: ’Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and bone."
³ And his mother’s brothers spoke all these words concerning him in the hearing of all the men of Shechem; and their heart was inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother."
⁴ So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him.