King James Version (KJV)
Judges 9:8
“The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.”
Verse in context — Judges 9
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem.
And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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