World English Bible
Judges 9:8
“The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.”
Verse in context — Judges 9
All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.
But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come 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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