Word: abimelech
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...sacred oak and pillar reappear in Judges 9, which reports the revolution touched off by Abimelech when he established himself as Israel's first king: "And all the men of Shochem assembled themselves together ... and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shochem...
Working in Jordan near the early Israeli capital of Shechem, the group used pottery fragments found in the ruins of a fortress to date the revolution led by Abimelech at about 1150 B.C. A team of 22 scholars participated in the excavation, the largest American archaeological project ever attempted in the Holy Land...
...expedition, led by G. Ernest Wright, Parkman Professor of Divinity, uncovered the ruins of the temple which Abimelech supposedly destroyed in his seige of Shechem. The Biblical story of the revolt is narrated in the Book of Judges...
/Judges 9:54 (Abimelech), Judges 16:30 (Samson), / Samuel 31'4-5 (Saul and his armor bearer), // Samuel 17:23 (Ahithophel), I Kings 16:18 (Zimri), // Maccabees 14:41 (Razis), Matthew 27:5 (Judas), Acts 16:27 (the jailer...
...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...