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Into three companies. —Why he only made three companies this time can only be matter of conjecture.

And he took the people
That is, the forces he had with him at Arumah:
and divided them into three…

Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's…
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Charles Ellicott
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