Abimelech is the only judge in the Bible to win leadership through treachery.
Abimelech knew that the nation wanted Gideon to rule over them. Since he was the son of Gideon, he wanted to become their king. He goes to his mother’s people who are in Shechem and persuades them to follow him. Amid all this, he kills his seventy brothers so that he would have no competition or confrontation. However, we do reap what we sow as we will see in a future devotion.
The moral of the story is this: make sure you know who you befriend as they may turn out to be your undoing.
In one of Aesop’s Fables is “The Man and His Two Sweethearts.”
“A man, whose hair was turning grey, had two sweethearts, an old woman and a young one. The elder didn’t like having him look so much younger than herself; so, whenever he came to see her, she pulled the dark hairs out of his head to make him look old. The younger didn’t like him to look older than herself, and pulled out the grey hairs, to make him look young. Between them, they left not a hair in his head, and he became perfectly bald.
Abimelech is about to find out that those who sided with him are about to pick him bald.
What to do:
✞ Follow the lead of your Godly father and you’ll stay out of trouble. Just ask Abimelech.
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