8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
5 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
6 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.
7 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.
8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign 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 wave back and forth over the trees?'
10 |The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come 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.
9:8'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.