Abimelech
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Sep 12, 2026
Joshua SelmanGUEST
So when God wants to help you, in addition to your value and everything you have, He will connect you to strategic relationships.
Joshua SelmanGUEST
One strategic relationship, like Lot and Abraham, one strategic relationship, like Abraham and Abimelech, one strategic relationship, like Esther and Ahasuerus, one strategic relationship, like Ruth and Boaz, can redefine your possibilities.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
Amen.
Joshua SelmanGUEST
Mm.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
In the following spring, however, Adams was displaced by a vote of the Council in favour of Major Paul Mascarene.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
"'The secretary came to my house,' wrote Adams to the Duke of Newcastle, "'and reported to me the judgment of the council in favour of Major Mascarene, "'from whose judgment I appealed to His Majesty, and said, "'If you have done well by the house of Jerubabbel, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let Abimelech rejoice in you.' After this lucid appeal, Adams, who had deep religious convictions, retired to Boston, and bemoaned the unrighteousness of Annapolis.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Footnote.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Writing from Boston to the Lords of Trade, Adams said, "'I would have returned to Annapolis before now, but there was no chaplain in the garrison to administer God's word and sacrament to the people.
Eric BarriosGUEST
And judges, a couple times mercenaries show up and judges.
Eric BarriosGUEST
Abimelech hires some mercenaries who are described as worthless and reckless men or empty and reckless men.
Eric BarriosGUEST
And these are displaced people, basically like outlaws in their world who just don't have a lot of options.
Eric BarriosGUEST
And so that doesn't make them... immediately virtuous in what they're doing, but it does give us reason to pause and think about the social implications, think about the society they're living in and what kind of driving forces might have led them into this kind of service in their world.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
Why? Well, as we talked about in the Forgotten Women series, so often Esther and Ruth, they get all the attention, they get the spotlight, which is great, they're great stories, but there's so many more women whom we can learn from, and there are certainly plenty in these two scrolls.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
I think the only woman that we're skipping in the whole thing is the one who dumps a rock off a wall onto Abimelech's head during a siege.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
And pretty much we're just skipping her because she's already iconic.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
There's nothing else to say.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
[laughs]
Marty SolomonHOST
Who doesn't remember the good old story of the rock getting dropped on Abimelech?
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
[laughs] Nothing to add.
Elle Grover FricksGUEST
Finished, finished masterpiece already.
Bill FedererGUEST
And so he is cast to earth and he gets a division in the garden, gets Adam to blame Eve, Cain to kill Abel.
Bill FedererGUEST
One story is Abimelech and he is the illegitimate son of Gideon.
Bill FedererGUEST
Gideon just defeated a hundred thousand Midianites.
Bill FedererGUEST
Nobody's even thinking about invading Israel from outside.
Bill FedererGUEST
Wherewith the Biblical hired vain and worthless persons.
Bill FedererGUEST
And they went to their father's house at Ophir and he slew his brethren.
Bill FedererGUEST
And then the men of Shechem made Abimelech came.
Bill FedererGUEST
So here you have a country, no threat from the outside, but on the inside, somebody wants power and he has to divide it.
Simon ArgentHOST
So let me just read Judges 10:1-9.
Simon ArgentHOST
So it says, "After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, became judge and began to deliver Israel.
Simon ArgentHOST
He was from Issachar and lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Simon ArgentHOST
And Tola judged Israel 23 years, and when he died was buried in Shamir.
Simon ArgentHOST
There's no, you know, destruction going on.
Simon ArgentHOST
Instead, Israel have this time to just take stock, to have a space to breathe, and it's an opportunity to ask, "Okay, do we wanna continue on the path that we're on? You know, this path that we're on is leading to greater and greater destruction.
Simon ArgentHOST
We just had that tyrant Abimelech, who nearly destroyed us because of our sin." And this is a moment for them to say, "Okay, do, do we wanna keep going that way, or do we wanna come back to God?" The story starts with a gracious moment to pause and reflect, but despite that, what we see is that Israel again choose to turn away from God.
Simon ArgentHOST
In verse six, it says, "Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord." And not only that, it doesn't just say that they kind of done this again, but it tells us that they have really plunged headlong into rebellion against God, 'cause it tells us that they worshiped seven gods, so the Baals, Ashtoreths, Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of Ammonites and the Philistines.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Chapter 9, verse 1.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Now Abimelech, the son of Jeroboam, went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family, say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jeroboam rule over you, or that one rule over you.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-bereth, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows who followed him.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the sons of Jeroboam, 70 men on one stone.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
But Jotham, the youngest son of Jeroboam, was left, for he hid himself.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth Milo.
Shola OkodughaHOST
"I knew how the battle, the battles I fought.
Shola OkodughaHOST
I knew when I went to, uh, Abimelech.
Shola OkodughaHOST
When Doeg the Edomite came and saw me and went back to Saul, your father, to come and kill me.
Shola OkodughaHOST
I knew how many time I dodged Saul's spear.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Job sent to David a full account of the battle.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He instructed the messengers, when you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, the king's anger may flare up and he may ask you, why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? Who killed Abimelech, son of Jeroboam? Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the walls so that he died outside Thebes? Why did you get so close to the wall? If he asks this, then say to him, Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The messenger set out.
speaker_1NARRATOR
When he arrived, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
There are others.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
When we learned Shoftim chapter 11, we talked about this more with Avimelech, and I think I gave other examples as well for this language, but that should suffice.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
David's group is of low social status, and they may even be dangerous, like other Mare Nefesh, but they're not empty people, and I think that's an important point.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
So what are we stressing here by describing them as Mare Nefesh? You know, bitter people, dangerous people.
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