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.
However, Campbell's opinion differed from this.  "Jotham was not condemning the monarchy itself, but was rather pointing out that Abimelech was a worthless person."[11]  (Inasmuch as the anointing of a king over Israel was contrary to the will of God and, in fact, was an outright rejection of divine rule, according to  1 Samuel 8:7, this writer favors the opinion of Bruce in New Bible Commentry Revised, as given above.)