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Judges 8:31

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

Context

28So 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.
29Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
31His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32Gideon 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.
33As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
34The 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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