Judges 9

The rather length chapter today reads more like Shakespeare than a passage of the Bible, as it is filled with treachery, murder, and tragedy. Despite Gideon's prodigious number of offspring his line is nearly wiped out: seventy of his sons, all but one, are killed by their half-brother (the son of his concubine). The one surviving heir curses both the half-brother and those who supported him, and the rest of the section tells of the ills that befall them as the curse runs its course. There is a lot that goes into the tale, but not really all that much to take out of it. I guess the moral here is not to conspire to commit evil, as God sees everything and will repay each person in turn for their actions.