Judges 9:10

10 Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You, come rule over us.'

Judges 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:10

And the trees said to the fig tree
Another useful and fruit bearing tree, and to which also good men are sometimes compared, see ( Song of Solomon 2:13 ) ,

come thou, and reign over us:
which Jarchi applies to Deborah, but may be better applied to one of Gideon's sons, who, though they had not a personal offer of kingly government themselves, yet it was made to them through their father, and refused, as for himself, so for them; and had it been offered to them, they would have rejected it, as Jotham seems to intimate by this parable.

Judges 9:10 In-Context

8 "The trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Rule over us.'

9 And the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop [producing] my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?'

10 Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You, come rule over us.'

11 But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I stop [producing] my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?'

12 And the trees said to the vine, 'You, come rule over us.'