Judges 9:6

and all the house of Millo Follow marg. and all Beth-millo, the name of a place not of a family Judges 9:20, cf. 2 Kings 12:20, in the neighbourhood of Shechem, but not the tower of S. mentioned in Judges 9:46. The name suggests that the place was called after the temple which stood there, bêth= -temple" as in Judges 9:4; millo= -filling up," so an artificial mound or terrace (in Assyrian mulû, tamlû). The Millo at Jerusalem was some part of the fortifications of the old Jebusite city, 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Kings 11:27 (LXX ἡ ἃκρα), Judges 9:15; Judges 9:24; or possibly, as Winckler considers, the original site of the sanctuary (Gesch. Isr. ii. 252, KAT, 239).

by the oak of the pillar A sacred terebinth (cf. on Judges 6:11) at or near Shechem is mentioned in the stories of Abraham Genesis 12:6 J and Jacob Genesis 35:4 E, and in Joshua 24:26 E (-in Jehovah's sanctuary"); in the last passage Joshua is said to have set up a stone beneath the oak. The stone is here called a -pillar," reading maṣṣçbâhfor muṣṣâb(which does not make sense); the pillar marked a holy place among both Hebrews (Exodus 24:4 E, Hosea 3:4; Hosea 10:1; Isaiah 19:19) and Canaanites (Exodus 23:24 E, Exodus 34:13 J etc.). Abimelech was made king at the sanctuary, as Saul at Gilgal, 1 Samuel 11:15.