Judges 8:31

Death of Gideon

29 Then ^aJerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

30 Gideon had ^aseventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives.

31 ^aAnd his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

32 Now Gideon the son of Joash died ^aat a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, ^bin Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

33 So it was, ^aas soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again ^bplayed the harlot with the Baals, ^cand made Baal-Berith their god.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Judges 8:31

Abimelech' s mother was not reckoned among the wives, being, probably, one of the Canaanite population in Shechem Judges 9:28 : neither was Abimelech himself reckoned with the 70 other sons of Jerubbaal (Judges 9:24. Compare Judges 11:1-2).

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