אֲבִימֶלֶךְʼĂbîymelek/ab-ee-mel'-ek/
HebrewH4067 occurrences (KJV)
Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites
KJV renders it: Abimelech.
Where it appears(showing the first 62 of 67)
- Gen 20:2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Gen 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”
- Gen 20:4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
- Gen 20:8Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
- Gen 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
- Gen 20:10Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
- Gen 20:14Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
- Gen 20:15Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
- Gen 20:17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
- Gen 20:18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Gen 21:22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
- Gen 21:25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Gen 21:26Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
- Gen 21:27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Gen 21:29Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”
- Gen 21:32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Gen 26:1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Gen 26:8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Gen 26:9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
- Gen 26:10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
- Gen 26:11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
- Gen 26:16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
- Gen 26:26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
- Judg 8:31His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
- Judg 9:1Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
- Judg 9:3His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
- Judg 9:4They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
- Judg 9:6All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
- Judg 9:16“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
- Judg 9:18and you have risen up against my father’s house today, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- Judg 9:19if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
- Judg 9:20but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”
- Judg 9:21Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
- Judg 9:22Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
- Judg 9:23Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
- Judg 9:24that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- Judg 9:25The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.
- Judg 9:27They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
- Judg 9:28Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?
- Judg 9:29I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army, and come out!”
- Judg 9:31He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.
- Judg 9:34Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- Judg 9:35Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.
- Judg 9:38Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”
- Judg 9:39Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
- Judg 9:40Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
- Judg 9:41Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
- Judg 9:42On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
- Judg 9:44Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.
- Judg 9:45Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people in it. He beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
- Judg 9:47Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- Judg 9:48Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
- Judg 9:49All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- Judg 9:50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
- Judg 9:52Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
- Judg 9:53A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
- Judg 9:55When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
- Judg 9:56Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
- Judg 10:1After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
- 2 Sam 11:21Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
- 1 Chr 18:16Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;
- Ps 34:1By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.