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All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar[a] in Shechem.

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  1. Judges 9:6 tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) should be מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).