¹⁸ And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

⁵ Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.

⁶ And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

³¹ And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

³⁵ And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.

¹⁴ Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.

⁴ For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.