Judges 9:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’

Cross References

Judges 9:11

But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?’

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?’

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.