Judges 9:16-21
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[16] Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands [17] (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: [18] and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); [19] if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: [20] but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. [21] Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
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Judges 9:16-21 mentions Arumah, Beth-millo, Diviners’ Oak, Lebanon, Midian, Mount Gerizim, Ophrah, Shechem, Tabbur-erez, Thebez and Tower of Shechem.
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