Judges 8:31
His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also had a son. He named him Abimelech.
Free Bible Version
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, all his own, because he had many wives.
Cross References
Genesis 16:15Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael.
Genesis 22:24In addition, Reumah his concubine had Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Judges 9:18But you have rebelled against my father's family today. You have killed his seventy sons on one stone and have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the leaders of Shechem simply because he's related to you.
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 →