Judges 9:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’

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.

Judges 9:13

But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:15

And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’