And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo , and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
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Gill's Exposition
And all the men of Shechem gathered together,.... Upon the return of Abimelech, after he with his banditti had committed the execrable murder of his brethren:
and all the house of Millo; which was…
Barnes' Notes
Millo must have been a fortified place close to, but separate from, Shechem, and perhaps the same as the tower of Shechem mentioned in Jdg 9:46-47. The building or enlarging of the better-known Millo,…
We are here told by what arts Abimelech got into authority, and made himself great. His mother perhaps had instilled into his mind some towering ambitious thoughts, and the name his father gave him,…
Cambridge Bible
and all the house of Millo Follow marg. and all Beth-millo, the name of a place not of a family Jdg 9:9, cf. 2Ki 12:20, in the neighbourhood of Shechem, but not the tower of S. mentioned in Jdg…
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