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Abimelech's Usurpation
Abimelech's Usurpation is a biblical event dated to c. 1129 BC at Shechem, in the Conquest & Judges era, recorded in Judges 9:1-57.
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Judges 9:1–57
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
Shechem