Abimelech,

Abimelech, (1) a Philistine king at Gerar, who took to his harem Sarah, whom Abraham had, for safety's sake, represented as his sister instead of his wife, but restored her in consequence of a divine command given him in a dream. See the story in Gen. xx.—(2) A son of the Hebrew judge Gideon by a Shechemite mother, who made himself king of Shechem, first murdering all his seventy brethren except the youngest, Jotham. After a reign of three years, he was wounded to death by a stone thrown by a woman while he was besieging the tower of Thebez, held by his insurgent subjects (Judges, ix.).