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	Abimelech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abimelech or Avimelech (אֲבִימֶלֶךְ / אֲבִימָלֶךְ "father/leader of a king; my father/leader, a king", Standard Hebrew Aviméleḫ / Avimáleḫ, Tiberian Hebrew ʼĂḇîméleḵ / ʼĂḇîmāleḵ) was a common name of the Philistine kings, much as "Pharaoh" was of the Egyptian kings.
		Abimelech afterwards visited him when he was encamped at Beer-sheba, and expressed a desire to renew the covenant which had been entered into between their fathers (Gen. 26:26-31).
		Abimelech (Judges), a son of Gideon (Judges 9:1), who was proclaimed king after the death of his father (Judges 8:33-9:6).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abimelech (450 words)

	Book of Judges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judges starts off with the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan, however there are many Canaanite tribes still in the land who still resist them, so although they have entered the land they do not have full control of it.
		Judges 1:22-36 is an account of the military campaigns of the house of Joseph.
		Modern biblical scholars consider the Book of Judges to be a part of the Deuteronomistic History, which was probably compiled in the late seventh century BC using several earlier sources, and re-edited in the sixth century BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Judges (1607 words)

	Love The Lord Judges Lesson 10
		Judges 9:3 "And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother." All the men of Shechem decided they wanted Abimelech for their king.
		Judges 9:6 "And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem." Millo was a strong fortification near Shechem.
		Judges 9:19 "If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:" He is willing to accept their decision, if they have dealt truly and sincerly with the house of Gideon.
	www.lovethelord.com /books/judges/10.html (1134 words)

	Abimelech (Judges) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Abimelech", a name claiming the inherited right to rule, was also a common name of the Philistine kings.
		Abimelech ruled but three years in Shechem after the death of his father (Judges 8:33-9:6).
		When engaged in reducing the town of Thebez, which had revolted, he was struck mortally on his head by a mill-stone, thrown by the hand of a woman from the wall above.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abimelech_(Judges) (275 words)

	Judges 9:44 Abimelech, and the companies that were with him
		Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.
		And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.
		Abim'elech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and slew them.
	bible.cc /judges/9-44.htm (332 words)

	Love The Lord Judges Lesson 11
		Judges 9:51 "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." They ran to this tower to avoid capture and death from Abimelech.
		Judges 9:52 "And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire." They were trying to break a hole in the bottom of the tower, so they could set it on fire.
		Judges 9:57 "And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal." The destruction of the men of Shechem was in answer to the curse Jotham spoke upon them for following Abimelech.
	www.lovethelord.com /books/judges/11.html (1770 words)

	Judges 9 - The Rise and Fall of Abimelech
		Then Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city; and the other two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and killed them.
		And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder; then he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste and do as I have done.
		Abimelech came as far as the tower and fought against it: After his brutal victory at the tower of Shechem, Abimelech probably thought he was an expert at "tower attack." He went to Thebez and attacked the city and the tower there.
	www.enduringword.com /commentaries/0709.htm (2385 words)

	Volume III Chap 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If we may judge from their connivance at the worship of Baal around, from the want of any recognized outstanding individuality among them, and especially from their utter inability to make a stand even for life against an equal number of enemies, they must have sadly degenerated; probably were an enervated, luxurious, utterly feeble race.
		The challenge to Abimelech is, of course, not to be regarded as delivered to himself, but, as so common in the East, addressed to an imaginary Abimelech.
		Abimelech was hovering in the neighborhood, and, when the unsuspecting people were busy in their fields, he surprised and slaughtered them, at the same time occupying the city, which was razed to the ground and sowed with salt.
	www.powerofchrist.net /OT4/volume_iii_chap_17.htm (3140 words)

	Abimelech (Judges) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Tanakh or OldTestament, Abimelech was a son of the great judge Gideon (Judges 9:1).
		Perceiving that the wound was mortal, hedesired his armor-bearer to thrust him through with his sword, that it might not be said he had perished by the hand of a woman(Judges 9:50-57).
		Abimelech was the title of the king at Gath, mentioned in thesuperscription to Psalm XXXIV.
	www.therfcc.org /abimelech-judges--222482.html (183 words)

	Wolfgang Bluedorn - Doctoral Dissertation
		It is claimed that the Gideon narrative and the Abimelech narrative need to be viewed as one narrative that focuses on the demonstration of Yahweh’s supreme power, which is contrasted with the absence of Baal, who serves as an example of any foreign god.
		Hence Abimelech is crowned on basis of Baal and a covenant of the Schechemites (Israelites) with Baal and thus becomes Baal’s chief representative (Judg 9:1-6).
		The following episodes (Judg 9:22-55) suggest that Baal is not present at all, that Baalism is a self-destructive religion, and that Yahweh is in control of the mutual destruction of the Baal worshippers, who are nevertheless held accountable (Judg 9:56-57).
	home.att.net /~whiteashtest/wolf/research.html (748 words)

	Reign of the Judges - The Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia on StudyLight.org
		It is impossible to determine the time when the reign of The judges began, or the number of years covered by their reigns.
		Abimelech reigned three years, and after numerous conflicts was slain by a woman who cast a piece of millstone Upon his head from the tower of Thebez (Judges 9:22-57).
		After Abimelech's death, Tola, the son Of Dodo, of the tribe of Issachar, judged Israel twenty-three years (Judges 10:1,2).
	www.studylight.org /enc/cbc/view.cgi?number=T45 (2163 words)

	Abimelech - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		It is quite possible that Abimelech was the royal title rather than the personal name, since in the title of Psalms 34 we find it applied to the king of Gath, elsewhere known by his personal name, Achish (1 Samuel 27:2,3).
		While sojourning at Gerar, the city of Abimelech, king of the Philistine country, he made believe that Sarah was his sister (Genesis 20:2), and Abimelech took her, intending to make her one of his wives.
		His cruel treatment of the Shechemites (Judges 9:46-49), when they took refuge from him in their strong tower, was a just judgment for their acquiescence in his crimes (Judges 9:20,57); while his own miserable death was retribution for his bloody deeds (Judges 9:56).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T61 (707 words)

	Abimelech (Judges) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Abimelech", a name claiming the inherited right to rule, was also a common name of the (A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC) Philistine (A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom) kings.
		He was, however, merely the son of Gideon's concubine; and to make good his claim to rule over (Click link for more info and facts about Ephraim) Ephraim, he resorted to force.
		Abimelech ruled but three years in (Click link for more info and facts about Shechem) Shechem after the death of his father (Judges 8:33-9:6).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abimelech_(judges)1.htm (244 words)

	JUDGES 10 - 12 JEPHTHAH Rom 12:1 +quot;I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies o (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JUDGES 10 - 12 JEPHTHAH Rom 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." (Have we made vows to God, e.g.
		LOOK AT Judges 10:13-16 God has divine compassion on Israel because He is still in covenant with them.
		Again, Jordan says "this would make absolutely no sense if she were about to be put to death, but it makes a lot of sense if she were about to be consigned to perpetual virginity" (jbj p.207).
	www.skepticfiles.org /aj/judges11.htm (509 words)

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		However, "there are indications that the actvity of the Judges was often limited to some tribe or tribes, and that the chronology, which cannot be harmonized with other statements in Old Tesstament, unduly lengthens the period, which in fact may not have exceeded two centuries" [Helps, 16]
		Bellow is a rough outline of my interpritations of a number of charts of the history of this time.
		A list of the judges in the order in which they ruled and approximate dates is also availible here.
	home.ccil.org /~wood/biblcmp/judges.html (128 words)

	Samuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		7:13, 14), during which Samuel exercised the functions of Judge, going "from year to year in circuit" from his home in Ramah to Bethel, thence to Gilgal (not that in the Jordan valley, but that which lay to the west of Ebal and Gerizim), and returning by Mizpeh to Ramah.
		Samuel had made his sons judges in Beersheba, but they were corrupt and self-serving.
		The elders, anticipating danger to Israel from these misusers of Samuel's authority, and being threatened with invasion from the Ammonites, demanded that a king should be set over them.
	www.toshare.info /en/Shemuel.htm (1323 words)

	Judges 9:1 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem
		Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
		And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
		And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
	bible.cc /judges/9-1.htm (259 words)

	Abimelech: king of Shechem
		Abimelech was the son of the Judge Gideon and a slave girl, who lived in Shechem.
		Abimelech then ask his body guard to strike him with a sword so it would not be said, "Abimelech was killed by an old women."
		After Abimelech’s death, God called a man by the name of Tola to be Israel’s Judge.
	ks.essortment.com /abimelech_rwtx.htm (568 words)

	Cleveland Bible Commentary on Judges Chapter 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Judges 9:24 (NIV) God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
		Judges 9:25 (NIV) In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelech.
		Judges 9:35 (NIV) Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance to the city gate just as Abimelech and his soldiers came out from their hiding place.
	www.christiancommunitychurch.us /clevelandcommentary/Jud09.html (1586 words)

	Web of Conspiracy -- Devotions.org: Daily Thoughts for Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Judges 8:33-35 records the failure of the Israelites to live after the defeat of the Midianites as they had during the battle.
		Attempting to trade on his father's reputation, Abimelech harangued the men of Shechem, claiming that it was far better to be ruled by one man, a Shechemite, than by all 70 of Gideon's sons.
		Abimelech, the would-be-king conspirator, and the Shechemites, his would-be subjects, were caught in the middle of their web of conspiracy.
	www.backtothebible.org /devotions/authors_attic/kroll/236 (712 words)

	Abimelech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The deal with his son, Abimelech, was a negative turning point for the nation
		Abimelech did not want it said that a woman had killed him.
		The followers of Abimelech (here identified as Israelites) went home when they saw that he was dead.
	www.felidachristianfellowship.org /studies/judges/abimelech.htm (235 words)

	childrens christian
		God was judging the wicked people of Canaan for their wickedness.
		Abimelech becomes the ruler of Israel after murdering the sons of Gideon.
		Abimelech is punished by being killed trying to conquer the city of Thebez.
	www.geocities.com /~perkinshome/childrensbible9.html (1146 words)

	Judges 9 Abimelech
		God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal's seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
		Abimelech chased him, and many fell wounded in the flight, all the way to the entrance to the gate.
		Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance to the city gate.
	www.revivallife.org /Bible/Old%20Testament/Judges/Judges%209.htm (1356 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Gideon (Judges)
		He is named in the Epistle to the Hebrews as an example of a man of faith.
		Gideon demanded proof of God's promise that he would be the saviour of Israel, which was given (Judges 6, 36-40):
		His son Abimelech succeeded him for a very short period of time as the king of Israel.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Jerubbaal (705 words)

	SS Lesson 7
		Abimelech gave the impression, which may have had some basis in reality, that the 70 legitimate sons of Gideon were ruling over the people of Shechem.
		Jotham's parable is both a searing commentary on the disloyalty and treachery of Abimelech and the Shechemites (Judges 9:1-6) and a prophecy that they would destroy each other.
		Abimelech was the "bramble" Jotham depicted him to be (Judges 9:14, 15).
	www.ssnet.org /qrtrly/eng/96b/96b07.html (1993 words)

	The Four Eleven Foundation: Judges - Book of Faithlessness and Deliverance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The deaths of Zebah and Zalmunna (Judges 8:18-21).
		Abimelech's terrible treachery is told in Judges 9:16.
		Abimelech's death is recorded after only three years reign.
	www.4-11.org /books/judges/jud09.html (589 words)

	BLB Jdg 9
		And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto the entering of the gate.
		And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
		And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
	www.blueletterbible.org /kjv/Jdg/Jdg009.html (1611 words)

	Bible History, Old Testament: Vol III - Chapter 17
		Farther Course of Gideon - The Ephod at Ophrah - Death of Gideon - Conspiracy of Abimelech - The parable of Jotham - Rule and End of Abimelech
		This wretched sum, somewhere at the rate of half-a-crown a person, sufficed to hire a band of seventy reckless rabble for the murder of Gideon's sons.
		* The expression in 9:22 is not that Abimelech reigned as a king, but that he lorded it.
	philologos.org /__eb-bhot/vol_III/ch17.htm (3122 words)

	How Does The Enemy Take Advantage of Curses?
		I. THE DOWNFALL and DESTRUCTION OF ABIMELECH - Judges 9
		Abimelech's rebellion - the slave woman's son incited the lords of Shechem
		The curse of Jothan - Judges 9:19-20 - A pronouncement of judgment
	www.sw-mins.org /curses5.html (439 words)

	Bible Query from Judges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a side note, Abimelech in Judges 10:54 asked his armor-bearer to kill him, so it would not be said he was killed by a woman.
		One difference between a "king" and a "judge" was that a king was hereditary, and a judge was not.
		Judges is explaining, as a secular history would, why this awful civil war occurred, and why, even centuries later, Benjamin was always such a small tribe.
	www.biblequery.org /jdg.htm (12918 words)

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