³ So his mother’s relatives spoke all of this on his behalf in the presence^[a] of all the “lords” of Shechem. Since they were inclined to follow Abimelech, they said, “He’s our relative!” ⁴ and they gave him 70 silver coins from the temple that they had built to^[b] Baal-berith. Abimelech hired some worthless and useless men, who followed him ⁵ to his father’s house in Ophrah. There he murdered his own brothers, Jerubbaal’s sons—all 70 of them—in one place.^[c] But Jerubbaal’s youngest son Jotham survived by hiding himself.