Abimelech

The first 10 of 36 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Judges

• Judges 8:31

  His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

• Judges 9:1

  Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

• Judges 9:3

  And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

• Judges 9:4

  So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.

• Judges 9:6

  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 9:16

  Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—

• Judges 9:18

  but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—

• Judges 9:19

  if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.

• Judges 9:20

  But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”

• Judges 9:21

  Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

Events the dataset lists Abimelech as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1218 BC
   Usurpation by AbimelechJudges 8:29–9:57 · at Canaan

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.