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;
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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;
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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.
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.
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.
Judges 8:35
And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.
Joshua 24:14
So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
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Psalms 103:2
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.
Proverbs 12:14
From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
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Proverbs 9:16
Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:
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Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
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