Judges 8:31
And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
In Context
30Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
Cross References
Genesis 16:15And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.
Genesis 22:24And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
Judges 9:18And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)
Matthew Henry on Judges 8:30-35
Israel's Return to Idolatry. ( b. c. 1249.) 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel… Read the whole commentary →