1. Judges 9:55 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the absence of a record of Abimelech’s being buried?

Judges 9:55 (ESV)

55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home.

This omission stands in contrast with the obituaries that appear elsewhere in this literary unit (i.e., Judges 6:1 – 10:15; see Judges 8:32; Judges 10:2, Judges 10:5).1