Judges 9:14-20

¹⁴Finally all the trees said to the thornbush,

‘Come and reign over us.’

¹⁵But the thornbush replied,

‘If you really are anointing me as king over you,

come and find refuge in my shade.

But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush

and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

¹⁶Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves —

¹⁷for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

¹⁸but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—

¹⁹if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.

²⁰But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”

— Judges 9:14-20

(BSB)

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Cross References for Judges 9:14-20

• Judges 8:35
• Isaiah 30:2
• 2 Kings 14:9
• Judges 9:5-6
• Judges 9:15
• Judges 9:20
• Isaiah 2:13
• Hosea 14:7
• Numbers 21:28
• Psalm 104:16

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