¹⁶ “So then, if you have acted in good faith^[a] and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerub-Baal and his house, and have dealt with him according to his accomplishments^[b]— ¹⁷ for my father fought and risked his life^[c] for you and delivered you from the hand of Midian; ¹⁸ but today you have risen against the house of my father and killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, a king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your relative^[d]—