⁴ They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous^[a] men as his followers.^{[b] 5} He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half brothers,^[c] the seventy legitimate^[d] sons of Jerub Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub Baal’s youngest son, escaped,^[e] because he hid. ⁶ All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar^[f] in Shechem.