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Judges 9:22-41
Judges 9:22-41. It looks like Abimelech did not spend all of his time at Shechem. In this part of the story we get teased a little. Yesterday Jotham, the one half-brother that escaped Abimelech’s murderous adventure against his other half-brothers, spoke a curse against Abimelech and the people of Shechem. Today’s reading starts out pretty
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Judges 9:1-21
Judges 9:1-21. Again, an interesting story and we are only part of the way through it. So Gideon died. Although he denied being a king he had acted like one. He took money from his country men. He had many wives and at least one concubine. His son, Abimelech, however was not so shy (Abimelech