Having driven its inhabitants to shelter in the strongest tower available, he paused in the doorway, searching for easy access in order to set fire to the structure – people and all. His illustrious career reached its pinnacle in a battle against his own disillusioned people in the city of Thebez. (The seventy-first, smaller and more effectively hidden than the others, was overlooked in error.) Even in those more tempestuous days, this zeal may have seemed somewhat excessive. The Lord’s decision might well have been influenced when Abimelech murdered seventy of his seventy-one brothers in his spirited scramble to the top of the heap. This is one of the bits that didn’t make it into the book.)Ībimelech, son of Gideon, followed in his father’s footsteps as a soldier, although God never actually appointed him a bona fide judge. (an outtake from Once More, From the Beginning.
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