Abimelech, Gideon’s son by a concubine in Shechem, persuades his mother’s relatives to support his claim to rule and murders seventy of his brothers on one stone; only Jotham escapes. Jotham answers with the parable of the trees and pronounces judgment. After three years, hostility erupts between Abimelech and Shechem, both sides are destroyed in violence, and Abimelech finally dies when a woman drops a millstone on his head.
Abimelech, Gideon’s son by a concubine in Shechem, persuades his mother’s relatives to support his claim to rule and murders seventy of his brothers on one stone; only Jotham escapes. Jotham answers with the parable of the trees and pronounces judgment. After three years, hostility erupts between Abimelech and Shechem, both sides are destroyed in violence, and Abimelech finally dies when a woman drops a millstone on his head.
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