Brother of Gideon, had a great many wives, from whom he begot 70 sons and one from a concubine.[1]
[Note] that Jonathan going up into Garizin (which is translated as "holy mountain") by telling a parable revealed in advance the hatred that was going to occur with both Abimilech and his followers.[2]
[Note] that when Jeroboam conjectured that if the people went up into Jerusalem to worship, he would turn them from rebellion to the lineage of David by setting up two golden heifers, the one in Bethel and the other in the tribe of Dan, he commanded them to regard these as gods, who led their fathers out of the land of Egypt; and there he demanded that they worship avoiding Jerusalem, with the pretext of the great journey, and he established priests as it happened, for he drove the Levites out to Jerusalem, and arranged the same feasts as in the Temple. And the people being easily corruptible followed him not unwillingly.[3]