Read the actual text of Judges 9

"No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baal."
(Judges 8:33)

Abimelech: A Want-to-be judge!

He asked his brothers to help him become the leader of Shechem, and...

"He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding."
(Judges 9:5)

God's real Judge may have been Jotham.
"Listen to me citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you."

Jotham's parable of the thorn bush

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