Judges 9:9
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| Overview - Judges 9 | |
| 1 | Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king. |
| 7 | Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin. |
| 22 | Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him. |
| 30 | Zebul reveals it. |
| 34 | Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt. |
| 46 | He burns the hold of the god Berith. |
| 50 | At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone. |
| 56 | Jotham's curse if fulfilled. |
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Judges 9:9 (King James Version)
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- wherewith
- Exodus 29:2 Exodus 29:7 ; 35:14 Leviticus 2:1 ; 1 Kings 19:15 1 Kings 19:16 ; Psalms 89:20 ; 104:15 Acts 4:27
- Acts 10:38 ; 1 John 2:20
- God
- {Elohim,} rather gods; the parable being adapted to the idolatrous Shechemites.
- to be promoted over the trees
- Hebrew up and down for other
- trees.
- Job 1:7 ; 2:2