8The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
8The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
5 And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.
6 And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem.
7 This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
8 The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
9 And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?
10 And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou 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 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.
9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us.