Judges 8:31
His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
World English Bible Classic
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 conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
Cross References
Genesis 16:15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Genesis 22:24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Judges 9:18and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men 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 →