Verse 31

His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

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  • Gen 16:15 : 15 Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
  • Gen 20:2 : 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.
  • Gen 22:24 : 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Judg 9:1-5 : 1 Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to visit his mother’s relatives. He spoke to them and to the entire family of his mother’s household, saying: 2 "Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: that seventy men—all the sons of Jerubbaal—rule over you, or that one man rules over you?' Remember, I am your own flesh and blood." 3 When Abimelech’s mother’s relatives spoke all of his words to the leaders of Shechem, their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother." 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and with it Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men who followed him. 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, escaped by hiding himself.
  • Judg 9:18 : 18 but today you have risen up against my father’s house and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your brother—