The Bible Story - Volume V - Chapter 67 - Basil Wolverton - 1966

Basil Wolverton

THE FIRE THAT FAILED! AFTER GIDEON was dead and Israel had again started slipping into idolatry, one of Gideon's many sons schemed to become king of Israel. He was Abimelech, an overly ambitious young man who went to violent extremes to push himself into power. One of his first moves was to pay a band of vicious characters to capture his seventy-one brothers and line them up at a chopping block. One of the brothers escaped, but all the others were beheaded. (Judges 9:1-5.) As soon as the dreadful act was finished, the murderers fled, careful to leave no evidence as to who had committed the ghastly crime. Gideon's youngest son, Jotham, was the one who had escaped being murdered. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library