JDG 9:14 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ εἶπαν πάντα τὰ ξύλα τῇ ῥάμνῳ, δεῦρο σὺ, βασίλευσον ἐφʼ ἡμῶν.
(Kai eipan panta ta xula taʸ ɽamnōi, deuro su, basileuson efʼ haʸmōn.)

ULT So all of the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come, you reign over us.’

UST So all of the trees finally told the thornbush, ‘Then we want you to be our king!’

BSB & MSB Finally all the trees said to the thornbush,
⇔ ‘Come and reign over us.’

OEB No OEB JDG 9:14 book available

WEBBE & WMBB “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

NET “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’

LSV And all the trees say to the bramble, Come, reign over us.

FBV Then all the trees asked the thorn bush, ‘You come and be our king.’

T4T “Then all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and be our king!’

LEB • So all the trees said to the thornbush,
• ‘You, come rule over us.’

BBE Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.

Moff No Moff JDG 9:14 book available

JPS Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.

ASV Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

DRA And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us.

YLT And all the trees say unto the bramble, Come thou, reign over us.

Drby Then said all the trees to the thorn-bush, Come thou, reign over us.

RV Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
(Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou/you, and reign over us.)

SLT And all the trees will say to the buckthorn. Come thou, reign over us.

Wbstr Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

KJB-1769 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.[fn]
(Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou/you, and reign over us.)

9.14 bramble: or, thistle

KJB-1611 Then said all the trees vnto the [fn]Bramble, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and footnotes)

9:14 Or, thistle.

Bshps Then said all the trees vnto the bryer: Come thou and raigne ouer vs.
(Then said all the trees unto the brier: Come thou/you and reign over us.)

Gnva Then said all the trees vnto the bramble, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Cvdl The sayde all the trees vnto the thorne busshe: Come thou, and be kynge ouer vs.
(The said all the trees unto the thorn bush: Come thou/you, and be king over us.)

Wycl And alle trees seiden to the ramne, ether theue thorn, Come thou, and be lord on vs.
(And all trees said to the bramble, either thief thorn, Come thou/you, and be lord on us.)

Luth Da sprachen alle Bäume zum Dornbusch: Komm du und sei unser König!
(So said all trees for_the thornbush: Come you(sg) and be our king!)

ClVg Dixeruntque omnia ligna ad rhamnum: Veni, et impera super nos.
(And_they_said everything wood to the_train: I_came, and command over us.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

וַ⁠יֹּאמְר֥וּ כָל־הָ⁠עֵצִ֖ים אֶל־הָ⁠אָטָ֑ד לֵ֥ךְ אַתָּ֖ה מְלָךְ־עָלֵֽי⁠נוּ

(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_said all the,trees to/towards the_thorn,bush come you(ms) reign over,us )

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [So all of the trees asked the thornbush to come and reign over them]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

כָל־הָ⁠עֵצִ֖ים

all the,trees

With the word all, Jotham is implicitly including the trees that had refused to become king. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [all of the trees, including the ones that could have become king themselves]

Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns

לֵ֥ךְ אַתָּ֖ה מְלָךְ־עָלֵֽי⁠נוּ

come (Some words not found in UHB: and=they_said all the,trees to/towards the_thorn,bush come you(ms) reign over,us )

See how you translated the same expression in [9:10](../09/10.md). Alternate translation: [Then you be the one to reign over us]

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Abimelech Seizes Power

Judges 9

Virtually every account in the book of Judges paints this formative period in Israel’s history as a very dark, brutal time when everyone did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6; 21:25). The story of Abimelech’s rise to power is no exception. Judges 6-8 recounts the heroic deeds of Gideon, a Manassite from the clan of Abiezer who rescued the Israelites from the Midianites. After Gideon’s victory, he returned to his hometown of Ophrah, and Israel enjoyed peace for the rest of his lifetime. But Gideon also left a legacy of idolatry by him, by his family, and by many Israelites. Gideon had many wives and seventy sons, as well as a concubine in Shechem who gave birth to another son named Abimelech (Judges 8:29-32). It appears that when Abimelech grew up, he settled in Arumah, (Judges 9:31), just outside Manassite territory in the tribal allotment of Ephraim (Joshua 16-17; see “Poster Map of the Tribe of Manasseh (West) and Its Surroundings, circa 1200 B.C.” map). Perhaps this move to non-Manassite territory reflected Abimelech’s lack of a legitimate heritage from his Manassite father. Later, Abimelech visited his relatives in Shechem and convinced them to persuade the leaders of Shechem to make him ruler over the city. To ensure that none of his seventy brothers, who were legitimate heirs to Gideon, challenged his authority, Abimelech went to Ophrah and killed all but one of them. The only brother to escape was Jotham, the youngest, and he went to the top of Mount Gerizim and warned them against betraying Gideon by making Abimelech king. Then he fled to the town of Beer, perhaps the same as Beeroth near the town of Gibeon. After three years, however, the leaders of Shechem began to grow dissatisfied with Abimelech as their king, and a man named Gaal offered to rule in place of him. Abimelech’s ally Zebul, who was one of the leaders of Shechem, went to Arumah and told Abimelech what Gaal was planning to do. So Gideon and his men split up into four groups and secretly surrounded the city at night. Then they attacked Gaal’s men, and Gaal’s men retreated into Shechem. Zebul drove them back out into the fields, and Abimelech’s men defeated them and captured the city. Some of the leaders of Shechem fled into the temple of El-berith (or Baal-berith), but Abimelech and his men cut down branches from Mount Zalmon (likely Mount Ebal just north of Shechem) and set fire to the temple, killing about 1000 people inside. Then Abimelech and his men went to Thebez and attacked the city. Many of the citizens took refuge inside a strong tower in the town, and Abimelech prepared to set fire to the entrance. But a woman on the roof dropped a millstone on his head, crushing his skull, so Abimelech commanded his armor bearer to kill him.

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Abimelech Seizes Power