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“When they told this to Yotam, he went and stood on top of Mount G’rizim and shouted, “Listen to me, you leaders of Sh’khem; then God will listen to you!”-Judges 9:7 Our attention now shifts to Yotam, the last surviving son following the massacre Avimelech instigated at Ofrah. Yotam’ actions after the murder of his […]

“They also gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Ba‘al-B’rit; and he used these to pay good-for-nothing thugs to follow him.  He went back to his father’s house in ‘Ofrah and killed his brothers the sons of Yeruba‘al, all seventy of them, on a single rock, except for Yotam Yeruba‘al’s youngest son, […]

“Avimelekh the son of Yeruba‘al went to Sh’khem, to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with the whole clan of his maternal grandfather. He said, ‘Please ask all the men of Sh’khem, ‘Which is better for you — that all seventy sons of Yeruba‘al rule over you, or that one person rule over you? […]

Following on the heels of yesterday’s conversation, let’s take stock of where we’re at. So the situation is that one of Gideon’s sons called Avimelech who was the product of Gideon’s union with a Canaanite concubine was making an appeal to the city of Shechem to be their ruler because as he put it… …”Which […]

Today we begin Judges Chapter 9. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. “…and now you are rebelling against my father’s household. You’ve killed his seventy sons on a single stone and made Avimelekh, the son of his slave-girl, king over the men of Sh’khem, because he’s your […]