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<span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the trees said to the fig tree, You come, reign over us! <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees? <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the trees said to the vine, You come, reign over us! <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But the vine said to them, Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees? <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Finally all the trees said to the bramble, You come, reign over us! <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have dealt with him as he deserved <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>but you have risen against my fathers house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your relative <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with Jerubbaal and his house this day, rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the men of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from Beth-millo, and consume Abimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer and remained there because of Abimelech his brother. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Shechem and Abimelech Fall</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Now Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>The men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to Abimelech. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his relatives, and crossed over into Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>They went out into the field and gathered <i>the grapes of</i> their vineyards and trod <i>them,</i> and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and <i>is</i> Zebul <i>not</i> his lieutenant? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Would, therefore, that this people were under my authority! Then I would remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase your army and come out. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>He sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem; and behold, they are stirring up the city against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>In the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush upon the city; and behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to them whatever you can. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>So Abimelech and all the people who <i>were</i> with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Now Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city gate; and Abimelech and the people who <i>were</i> with him arose from the ambush. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains. But Zebul said to him, You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as <i>if they were</i> men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, people are coming down from the highest part of the land, and one company comes by the way of the diviners oak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Then Zebul said to him, Where is your boasting now with which you said, Who is Abimelech that we should serve him? Is this not the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them! <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Then Abimelech remained at Arumah, but Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives so that they could not remain in Shechem. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>Now it came about the next day, that the people went out to the field, and it was told to Abimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>So he took his people and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field; when he looked and saw the people coming out from the city, he arose against them and slew them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>Then Abimelech and the company who was with him dashed forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; the other two companies then dashed against all who <i>were</i> in the field and slew them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who <i>were</i> in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>When all the leaders of the tower of Shechem heard of <i>it,</i> they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>It was told Abimelech that all the leaders of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who <i>were</i> with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and lifted it and laid <i>it</i> on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who <i>were</i> with him, What you have seen me do, hurry <i>and</i> do likewise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put <i>them</i> on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those <i>inside,</i> so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the leaders of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelechs head, crushing his skull. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>Then he called quickly to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, so that it will not be said of me, A woman slew him. So the young man pierced him through, and he died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each departed to his home. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/9-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>Also God returned all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/judges/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/judges/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/judges/9.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/judges/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/judges/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/judges/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/judges/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'The trees have diligently gone to anoint over them a king, and they say to the olive, Reign thou over us.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/of_prayer--a_perpetual_exercise_of_faith/chapter_15_here_by_way.htm">Here, by Way of Objection, Several Questions are Raised. ...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Here, by way of objection, several questions are raised. Scripture relates that God sometimes complied with certain prayers which had been dictated by minds not duly calmed or regulated. It is true, that the cause for which Jotham imprecated on the inhabitants of Shechem the disaster which afterwards befell them was well founded; but still he was inflamed with anger and revenge (Judges 9:20); and hence God, by complying with the execration, seems to approve of passionate impulses. Similar fervour <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/of_prayer--a_perpetual_exercise_of_faith/chapter_15_here_by_way.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">Of Prayer--A Perpetual Exercise of Faith</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_riches_of_bunyan/xiv_trials_of_the_christian.htm">Trials of the Christian</a><br></span><span class="snippet">AFFLICTION--ITS NATURE AND BENEFITS. The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world's vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of God's mind. Out of dark afflictions comes a spiritual light. In times of affliction, we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. The end of affliction is the discovery of sin; and of that, to bring us to a Saviour. Doth not God ofttimes even take occasion, by the hardest of things that come upon us, to visit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_riches_of_bunyan/xiv_trials_of_the_christian.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Riches of Bunyan</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against_lying/section_28_hence_is_also.htm">Hence is Also that which Thou Hast Mentioned that they Speak Of...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">28. Hence is also that which thou hast mentioned that they speak of, that the Lord Jesus, after He was risen, walked in the way with two disciples; and upon their drawing near to the village whither they were going, He made as though He would have gone farther: where the Evangelist, saying, "But He Himself feigned that He would go further," [2435] hath put that very word in which liars too greatly delight, that they may with impunity lie: as if every thing that is feigned is a lie, whereas in a truthful <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against_lying/section_28_hence_is_also.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">Against Lying</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/x_the_hebrew_sages_and.htm">The Hebrew Sages and their Proverbs</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Sidenote: Role of the sages in Israel's life] In the days of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jer. xviii. 18; Ezek. vii. 26) three distinct classes of religious teachers were recognized by the people: the prophets, the priests, and the wise men or sages. From their lips and pens have come practically all the writings of the Old Testament. Of these three classes the wise men or sages are far less prominent or well known. They wrote no history of Israel, they preached no public sermons, nor do they appear <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/x_the_hebrew_sages_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Foster Kent—</span><span class="citation2">The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_sovereignty_of_god/chapter_three_sovereignty_of_god.htm">Sovereignty of God in Administration</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The LORD hath prepared His Throne In the heavens; and His Kingdom ruleth over all" (Psa. 103:19). First, a word concerning the need for God to govern the material world. Suppose the opposite for a moment. For the sake of argument, let us say that God created the world, designed and fixed certain laws (which men term "the laws of Nature"), and that He then withdrew, leaving the world to its fortune and the out-working of these laws. In such a case, we should have a world over which there was no intelligent, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_sovereignty_of_god/chapter_three_sovereignty_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Sovereignty of God</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/seasonable_counsel_or_advice_to.htm">Seasonable Counsel: Or, Advice to Sufferers. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">BY JOHN BUNYAN. London: Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1684. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. THIS valuable treatise was first published in a pocket volume in 1684, and has only been reprinted in Whitfield's edition of Bunyan's works, 2 vols. folio, 1767. No man could have been better qualified to give advice to sufferers for righteousness' sake, than John Bunyan: and this work is exclusively devoted to that object. Shut up in a noisome jail, under the iron hand of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/seasonable_counsel_or_advice_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxii_the_greater_prophets.htm">The Greater Prophets. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. We have already seen (Chap. 15, Nos. 11 and 12) that from Moses to Samuel the appearances of prophets were infrequent; that with Samuel and the prophetical school established by him there began a new era, in which the prophets were recognized as a distinct order of men in the Theocracy; and that the age of written prophecy did not begin till about the reign of Uzziah, some three centuries after Samuel. The Jewish division of the latter prophets--prophets in the more restricted sense of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxii_the_greater_prophets.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. Barrows—</span><span class="citation2">Companion to the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_divine_cordial/an_exhortation_to_love_god.htm">An Exhortation to Love God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. An exhortation. Let me earnestly persuade all who bear the name of Christians to become lovers of God. "O love the Lord, all ye his saints" (Psalm xxxi. 23). There are but few that love God: many give Him hypocritical kisses, but few love Him. It is not so easy to love God as most imagine. The affection of love is natural, but the grace is not. Men are by nature haters of God (Rom. i. 30). The wicked would flee from God; they would neither be under His rules, nor within His reach. They fear God, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_divine_cordial/an_exhortation_to_love_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Divine Cordial</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_20_of_prayera_perpetual.htm">Of Prayer --A Perpetual Exercise of Faith. The Daily Benefits Derived from It. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. A general summary of what is contained in the previous part of the work. A transition to the doctrine of prayer. Its connection with the subject of faith. 2. Prayer defined. Its necessity and use. 3. Objection, that prayer seems useless, because God already knows our wants. Answer, from the institution and end of prayer. Confirmation by example. Its necessity and propriety. Perpetually reminds us of our duty, and leads to meditation on divine providence. Conclusion. Prayer a most useful exercise. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_20_of_prayera_perpetual.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/judges.htm">Judges</a><br></span><span class="snippet">For the understanding of the early history and religion of Israel, the book of Judges, which covers the period from the death of Joshua to the beginning of the struggle with the Philistines, is of inestimable importance; and it is very fortunate that the elements contributed by the later editors are so easily separated from the ancient stories whose moral they seek to point. 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