Abimelech

[1] In the Book of Judges, Abimelech, son of Gideon,[2] of the Tribe of Manasseh, is proclaimed king of Shechem after the death of his father.

At the time of the Amarna tablets (mid-14th century BC), there was an Egyptian governor of Tyre similarly named Abimilki, who is sometimes speculated to be connected with one or more of the biblical Abimelechs.

[citation needed] Abimelech was most prominently the name of a polytheistic[6][7] king of Gerar who is mentioned in two of the three wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis, in connection with both Abraham[8] and Isaac.

He persuaded his mother's brothers to encourage the people of Shechem to back him in a plot to overthrow his family rule and make him sole ruler.

The people of Shechem set robbers to lie in wait of any goods or money headed to Abimelech and steal everything.

When he went close to the tower in Thebez to set it on fire, a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech's head.