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What does Judges 8:31 mean?
"His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech."
— Judges 8:31 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
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