When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
"Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant"  (Judges 9:18).  Armerding interpreted this as a slur upon Abimelech,[12] but Boling was of the opinion that, "The words here do not impute to Abimelech's mother either high or low social status."[13]  Nevertheless, there was some difference between a concubine and a slave-girl, and therefore we are inclined to view this reference to Abimelech's mother as derogatory.