My Father Is King, Chapter 2: Judges 9

Abimelech finds the money, the men and the night to take what he wants.

A manga of the Bible: every word spoken and narrated is taken from scripture (the Berean Standard Bible).

The stories

Abimelech’s Conspiracy, Gideon’s Ephod.

Scenes

  • The Temple of Baal-berith (Judg 9:4; 8:25)
  • Worthless and Reckless Men (Judg 9:4)
  • Ophrah by Night (Judg 9:5, 9:2)
  • One Stone (Judg 9:5)
  • The One Who Hid (Judg 9:5)
  • The Oak at the Pillar (Judg 9:6)

Read the chapters on the Illustrated Bible

  • Judges 9, illustrated
  • Judges 8, illustrated
The words of this chapter

The Temple of Baal-berith (Judg 9:4; 8:25)

So they gave him each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it. seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith,

Worthless and Reckless Men (Judg 9:4)

with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.

Ophrah by Night (Judg 9:5, 9:2)

He went to his father's house in Ophrah,

Abimelech: seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, ... or just one man?

and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal.

The One Who Hid (Judg 9:5)

But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

The Oak at the Pillar (Judg 9:6)

Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.

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