Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
"The name of his son Abimelech (’my father is king’) probably does not mean that Gideon regarded himself as monarch. In personal names ’my father’ normally refers to God; so Gideon could have been reemphasizing the assertion of Judges 8:23 ["the LORD shall rule over you"]." [Note: Wolf, p. 434.] 