Judges 9:1-2

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9 One day Gideon’s son Abimelech visited his uncles—his mother’s brothers—in Shechem.

² “Go and talk to the leaders of Shechem,” he requested, “and ask them whether they want to be ruled by seventy kings—Gideon’s seventy sons—or by one man—meaning me, your own flesh and blood!”^[a]