John Gill's Exposition on Judges 9:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, unto his mother’s brethren, etc.] It seems that though the mother of Abimelech lived at Shechem, he was taken and brought up in his father’s house at Ophrah, where he was when he died; and from hence he came to Shechem, to pay a visit to his uncles there; whether his mother was now living, is not certain: and communed with them; about the death of his father, the state of his family, and the government of Israel: and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father; that descended from his grandfather, the several branches of them, and of the family, the heads of them at least: saying, as follows.

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