Judges 9:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then all the lords of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:9

David occupied the stronghold and named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward.

1 Kings 12:1

Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there; he went out from there and built Penuel.

2 Kings 12:20

His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

Joshua 24:26

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.

Judges 9:7

When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.