Abimelech, His Usurped Rule and Downfall (1)

In treating this subject, we must set out with once more directing attention to Gideon's doing of making an ephod from the donations of the people. The ephod, as has already been explained, had a high priestly significance. It was a special sacred garment worn by the high priest. With it was connected the Urim and the Thummim through which the people could contact God and to which the judges and rulers in Israel could thus apply, through the high priest, for divine direction in any national...