* Gaal.
   Of this person we know no more than is here recorded.  He was
   probably one of the descendants of the Canaanites, who hoped,
   from the state of the public mind and their disaffection to
   Abimelech, to cause a revolution, and thus to restore the
   ancient government as it was under Hamor, the father of
   Shechem.  Josephus says he was a man of authority, who
   sojourned with them, with his armed men and kinsmen; and that
   the Shechemites desired that he would allow them a guard
   during the vintage.

 * the people.
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