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Judges 9:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Judges 9:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
6 Then all the lords of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar[a] at Shechem.
The Parable of the Trees
7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.
8 The trees once went out
to anoint a king over themselves.
So they said to the olive tree,
‘Reign over us.’
Footnotes
- Judges 9:6 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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