His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
"In relation to the book as a whole, Gideon receives attention as the focal point because he represents a significant shift in the ’quality’ of the judges that served Israel. A progressive deterioration begins with Othniel and continues through Samson. Othniel was almost an idealized judge, and Samson was a debauched self-centered individual. God used each judge, whether strong or weak, to accomplish His sovereign will and effect deliverance for the theocratic nation. Gideon, on the other hand, stands somewhere between these two extremes and represents the primary turning point from the ’better’ judges to the ’weaker’ ones." [Note: Tanner, pp. 152-53.] 