Judges 9:8 - Revised Standard Version

The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

One time the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us.

American Standard Version (1901)

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.

Common English Bible

“Once the trees went out to anoint a king over themselves. So they said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’

Catholic Public Domain Version

The trees went to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The trees went to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive-tree: Reign thou over us.

Judges 9:8 Cross References

2 Kings 14:9

And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

2 Chronicles 25:18

And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

Judges 9:7

When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’