This region happens to be next door to the city of Shechem in Manasseh, which is where Abimelech ruled and caused so much destruction. So there is probably some significance to the fact that a man from this region near Shechem would arise during the power vacuum that Abimelech left behind there. This judge does not do his work far away from the destruction that happened at Shechem. He does not go to the far north or south; he does not head over the Jordan. He goes very close to the problem area, where God’s people needed his help most. That is where he busies himself, saving Israel.