Judges 9:17

Abimelech Attempts To Become King

¹⁶ And, now, if in truth and in sincerity ye have acted, when ye make Abimelech king; and if ye have done good with Jerubbaal, and with his house; and if according to the deed of his hands ye have done to him -- ¹⁷ because my father hath fought for you, and doth cast away his life from him, and deliver you from the hand of Midian; ¹⁸ and ye have risen against the house of my father to-day, and slay his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and cause Abimelech son of his handmaid to reign over the masters of Shechem, because he is your brother --

My Father

Midian

Midianites

Judges 7:1-25

And Jerubbaal (he is Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who are with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.

Judges 8:4-10

And Gideon cometh in unto the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who are with him -- wearied, and pursuing,

Esther 4:16

Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that is not according to law, and when I have perished -- I have perished.'

Romans 5:8

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Romans 16:4

who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations --

Revelation 12:11

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;