“And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.”
And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech — Gaal leads Shechem in a vintage festival (עִנָּבִים, inabim, grapes). The celebration becomes a venue for sedition. The cycle shows the tyrant's rule no longer commanding obedience.
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