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Abimelech

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Abimelech

Common Philistine name or title, meaning ‘the king (God) is my father’.

In the Old Testament, the natural son of Gideon was called Abimelech. He murdered his 70 brothers (except the youngest, Jotham, who escaped) and became king of Shechem. Jotham protested in the parable of the bramble king, the first biblical parable.

Similar stories in Genesis 20 and 26 describe how two Philistine kings of Gerar also called Abimelech, assuming the wives of Abraham and Isaac to be their sisters, attempted to marry them. Both women were restored to their husbands when the true relationships were revealed.



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When, for instance, a woman wounds Abimelech by dropping a millstone on his head--an act which shamed Abimelech--he "immediately cried out to his attendant, his armor-bearer, 'Draw your dagger and finish me off, that they may not say of me, "A woman killed him
"Saving Judas"--a social scientific approach to Judas's suicide in ... by Reed, David A. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
In the book of Judges we read of an incident where Abimelech, after the conquest of a city, and the slaughter of all its inhabitants, not only destroyed the place but also sowed the land with salt so that nothing would ever grow again.
Salt a symbol of commitment, desolation by Peers, Michael / Anglican Journal
After the desert chieftain, Abimelech, demands that he remove his flocks and herds from the very land God has promised to his father Abraham, Isaac instantly surrenders.
"Palestine was a halting place, one of many": Diasporism in the ... by Omer, Ranen / MELUS
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