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Abimelech the son of Gideon from a concubine."And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech(8:31).
The Spirit mentions him separately after placing his seventy sons in the preceding verse which ought to help us understand his place in the genealogy of his father, the same significance that bar sinister holds in heraldry. Abimelech in Hebrew means 'My father the king' which is not same as Jether his firstborn who accompanied his father in his wars with the nations. From the manner Abimelech comes to power he was anything but kingly. He was an usurper and he had his base which is what kept him in power.
God wanted to prove the people of Israel which had corrupted themselves as easily as they turned their backs on their deliverer as soon as he was no more. "And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god./And the children of Israel remembered not theLordtheir God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:/Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel(8:33-35).
Of what value was the oath of the Israelites or their pledge of alliance? 'Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian(8:22)". The Spirit sets their lip-service to God boomerang on themselves. They were taken in easily by the intrigue of Abimelech and his faction. In our time also when psychopaths take the reins of nations they shall have tricks up their sleeve to legitimize their rule.
This Abimelech episode is for our instruction in righteousness. God shall take the wicked by their own snares.
Abimelech the son of Gideon from a concubine."And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech(8:31).
The Spirit mentions him separately after placing his seventy sons in the preceding verse which ought to help us understand his place in the genealogy of his father, the same significance that bar sinister holds in heraldry. Abimelech in Hebrew means 'My father the king' which is not same as Jether his firstborn who accompanied his father in his wars with the nations. From the manner Abimelech comes to power he was anything but kingly. He was an usurper and he had his base which is what kept him in power.
God wanted to prove the people of Israel which had corrupted themselves as easily as they turned their backs on their deliverer as soon as he was no more. "And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god./And the children of Israel remembered not theLordtheir God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:/Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel(8:33-35).
Of what value was the oath of the Israelites or their pledge of alliance? 'Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian(8:22)". The Spirit sets their lip-service to God boomerang on themselves. They were taken in easily by the intrigue of Abimelech and his faction. In our time also when psychopaths take the reins of nations they shall have tricks up their sleeve to legitimize their rule.
This Abimelech episode is for our instruction in righteousness. God shall take the wicked by their own snares.
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