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?
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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?
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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 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.
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.
Luke 13:6
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
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Judges 5:25
His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.
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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 9:9
And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.
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Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
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