8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us.
8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us.
5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being three score and ten persons, on one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
6 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.
7 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 to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us.
9 But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us.
9:8One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Be our king.'
9:8The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
9:8The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.
9:8The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.
9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
9:8'The trees have diligently gone to anoint over them a king, and they say to the olive, Reign thou over us.