Judges 8:31

And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

Ver. 31. And his concubine,] i.e., His wife though in an inferior degree: a as having been before his maid servant. Jdg 9:18

Whose name he called Abimelech,] i.e., My father is king. This name, probably, he gave him at the motion of his concubine, who might say of her son as afterwards Nero's mother did of him, Occidar, modo imperet; let him reign upon any terms: and possibly this name of his might stir him up to aspire to the kingdom, taking omen ex nomine, and being told that his father was offered the sovereign and supreme power for him and his posterity.

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