Discovery BoxJudges 9:18 
Context9:18 But you have attacked 1 my father’s family 2 today. You murdered his seventy legitimate 3 sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative. 4
Judges 9:24
Context9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother 5 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. 6
Judges 9:28
Context9:28 Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? 7 Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech? 8
Judges 17:3
Context17:3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, “I solemnly dedicate 9 this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.” 10
1 tn Heb “have risen up against.”
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tn Heb “your brother.”
5 tn Heb “their brother.”
6 tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”
7 tn Heb “and Zebul his appointee.”
8 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abimelech) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “dedicating, I dedicate.” In this case the emphatic infinitive absolute lends a mood of solemnity to the statement.
10 tn Heb “to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a carved image and cast metal image.” She cannot mean that she is now taking the money from her hand and giving it back to her son so he can make an image. Verses 4-6 indicate she took back the money and used a portion of it to hire a silversmith to make an idol for her son to use. The phrase “a carved image and cast metal image” is best taken as referring to two idols (see 18:17-18), even though the verb at the end of v. 4, וַיְהִי (vayÿhi, “and it was [in the house of Micah]”), is singular.
