People of the Bible
Abimelech
Family
In the story
- Usurpation by Abimelech · 1217 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A son of Gideon (Judg. 9:1), who was proclaimed king after the death of his father (Judg. 8:33-9:6). One of his first acts was to murder his brothers, seventy in number, “on one stone,” at Ophrah. Only one named Jotham escaped. He was an unprincipled, ambitious ruler, often engaged in war with his own subjects. When engaged in reducing the town of Thebez, which had revolted, he was struck mortally on his head by a mill-stone, thrown by the hand of a woman from the wall above. Perceiving that the wound was mortal, he desired his armour-bearer to thrust him through with his sword, that it might not be said he had perished by the hand of a woman (Judg. 9:50-57).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 36 verses
- Judges
- 8:31, 9:1, 9:3, 9:4, 9:6, 9:16, 9:18, 9:19, 9:20, 9:21, 9:22, 9:23, 9:24, 9:25, 9:27, 9:28, 9:29, 9:31, 9:34, 9:35, 9:38, 9:39, 9:40, 9:41, 9:42, 9:44, 9:45, 9:47, 9:48, 9:49, 9:50, 9:52, 9:53, 9:55, 9:56, 10:1
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.