Judges 8:31
and his concubine, who [is] in Shechem, has borne to him—even she—a son, and he appoints his name Abimelech.
Literal Standard 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
30and there have been seventy sons of Gideon, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;
Cross References
Genesis 16:15And Hagar bears a son to Abram; and Abram calls the name of his son, whom Hagar has borne, Ishmael;
Genesis 22:24and his concubine, whose name [is] Reumah, she also has borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.
Judges 9:18and you have risen against the house of my father today, and slay his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and cause Abimelech son of his handmaid to reign over the masters 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 →