Day 72 Reading: Judges 9:1 - Judges 11:40 Gideon, as we have already read in the previous chapters, was a great man who also had many wives and a concubine. He had 70 sons and one with the concubine named Abimelech. His legacy was blighted by this aspect of his family. The people of Israel had offered Gideon to become a ruler and that his son's sons should rule over them- see Judges 8:22. However, Abimelech convinces the people of Shechem to make him their ruler and he then kills his step-brothers except one named Jotham. Jotham then declares a parable where he announces how Abimelech would struggle as the people would turn against him. Abimelech died a cruel death where a woman dropped a stone that crushed his head. Don't go killing your brethren it will result in disaster for you. The book of Judges is about the cycles of how the children of Israel served God, they forgot God, suffered oppression, cried to God for mercy and deliverance, and then received l...
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