Judges 9:15-17

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¹⁵Then the bramble bush replied to the trees,
    ‘If you really are consecrating^[a] me to rule you,
        come and put your confidence in my shade;
    but if not, may fire spring out from the bramble bush
        and burn up the cedars^[b] of Lebanon…’

¹⁶“Now then, if you have been acting in good faith and integrity by making a king out of Abimelech, if you have treated Jerubbaal and his household appropriately by acting toward him as he deserved^[c]— ¹⁷because my father fought on your behalf, throwing away all concern for his own life, and delivered you from Midian’s domination.

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Judges 9:15 Or anointing
Judges 9:15 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book
Judges 9:16 Lit. as his hands acted

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Judges 9:15-17

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