Judges 9:8
One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.
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Judges 9:8
One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.
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Judges 9:7
Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.
Judges 9:8
One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.
Judges 9:9
But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?
Judges 9:10
Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.
Judges 9:11
But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?
Judges 9:12
Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.
Judges 9:13
But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?
Judges 9:14
Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.
Judges 9:15
And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.
2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
2 Samuel 14:5
And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
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2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.
2 Samuel 12:2
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;
2 Samuel 12:3
But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:
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Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
Psalms 52:8
But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
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Judges 9:16
So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;
Judges 9:17
(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;
Judges 9:18
And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)
Judges 9:19
If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;
Judges 9:20
But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.
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Matthew 13:2
And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.
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Matthew 13:3
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;
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