Judges 9:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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?’