Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
In other words, he's an outsider. We ought to be serving Hamor and his family, let them be the kings. And he said to God the people were under my rule, because I can really do a good job here, you know. Who's Abimelech? And so he said if you would just commit yourself to me I would remove Abimelech.