Hakim-hakim 8:31

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

juga gundiknya yang tinggal di Sikhem melahirkan seorang anak laki-laki baginya, lalu ia memberikan nama Abimelekh kepada anak itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
juga gundiknya yang tinggal di Sikhem melahirkan seorang anak laki-laki baginya, lalu ia memberikan nama Abimelekh kepada anak itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka gundiknya yang di Sikhempun memperanakkan baginya seorang anak laki-laki, yang dinamainya Abimelekh.

Contextual Overview

²⁹ And Ierobaal ye sonne of Ioas, went and dwelt in his owne house. ³⁰ And Gedeon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wyues. ³¹ And his cocubine that was in Sichem bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech. ³² And Gedeon the sonne of Ioas dyed in a good age, and was buryed in the sepulchre of Ioas his father, euen in Ephrah, that parteyned vnto the father of the Esrites. ³³ But assoone as Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned away, & went a whoryng after Baalim, and made a couenaunt with Baal to be their God. ³⁴ And the children of Israel thought not on the Lorde their God, which had deliuered them out of the handes of all their enemies on euery syde: ³⁵ Neither shewed they mercy on the house of Ierobaal [otherwyse called] Gedeon, according to all the goodnes which he had shewed vnto Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

concubine: Judges 9:1-5, Genesis 16:15, Genesis 22:24

called: Heb. set

Abimelech: Judges 9:18, Genesis 20:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:3 - seven hundred 2 Chronicles 13:21 - begat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his concubine that was in Shechem,.... Which was not an harlot, but a secondary or half wife; such were generally taken from handmaids, and of the meaner sort, and were not in such esteem as proper wives, had not the management of household affairs, only a share in the bed, and their children did not inherit. This concubine of Gideon's seems not to have been taken into his house at all, but lived at Shechem, perhaps in her father's house, and here Gideon met with her when he went to Shechem as a judge to try causes; her name, according to Josephus l, was Druma:

she also bare him a son; as his other wives did; perhaps all the children he had were sons, and this was one over and above the seventy, and not to be reckoned into that number:

whose name he called Abimelech: which signifies, "my father a king"; which he gave him either in memory of the offer made him to be king of Israel, or through foresight of what this son of his would be; or he might be moved to it by the mother from pride and vanity, and which name might afterwards inspire the young man to be made a king, as he was; and the account given of his name is because of the narrative of him in the following chapter.

l Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Abimelech’s mother was not reckoned among the wives, being, probably, one of the Canaanite population in Shechem Judges 9:28 : neither was Abimelech himself reckoned with the 70 other sons of Jerubbaal (Judges 9:24. Compare Judges 11:1-2).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:31. His concubine — A lawful but secondary wife, whose children could not inherit.

Whose name he called Abimelech. — That is, my father is king, or my father hath reigned. This name was doubtless given by the mother, and so it should be understood here; she wished to raise her son to the supreme government, and therefore gave him a name which might serve to stimulate him to seek that which she hoped he should enjoy in his father's right. See the following chapter (Judges 9:0).