Judges 9:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If ye will indeed anoint me king over you, come, and put your trust under my shadow: and if not, the [a]fire shall come out of the bramble, and consume the Cedars of Lebanon.
16 Now therefore, if ye do truly and incorruptly to make Abimelech King, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands,
17 (For my father fought for you, and [b]adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hands of Midian.
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- Judges 9:15 Abimelech shall destroy the nobles of Shechem.
- Judges 9:17 Hebrew, he cast his life far from him.
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