07:008:028 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in
quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
07:008:029 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house.
07:008:030 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten:
for he had many wives.
07:008:031 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a
son, whose name he called Abimelech.
07:008:032 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.
07:008:033 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after
Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
07:008:034 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God,
who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies
on every side:
07:008:035 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had
shewed unto Israel.
07:009:001 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the
family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
07:009:002 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.