Judges 9:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The trees once went out to anoint a king over themselves. So they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ “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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.

2 Chronicles 25:18

King Joash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If the foot would 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 lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

Judges 9:9

The olive tree answered them, ‘Shall I stop producing my rich oil by which gods and mortals are honored and go to sway over the trees?’