Judges 9:10

Legacy Standard Bible

But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the trees said to the fig tree,“Come and reign over us.”

Hebrew Names Version
The trees said to the fig tree, Come, and reign over us.

King James Version
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Lexham English Bible
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You, come rule over us.'

English Standard Version
And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.'

New Century Version
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and be king over us!'

New English Translation
"So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!'

Amplified Bible
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us!'

New American Standard Bible
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You, come, reign over us!'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the trees sayde to the fig tree, Come thou, and be King ouer vs.

Contemporary English Version
Then they asked the fig tree, "Will you be our king?"

Complete Jewish Bible
So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You, come and rule over us!'

Darby Translation
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, reign over us.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and be our king.'

George Lamsa Translation
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us.

Good News Translation
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king.'

Literal Translation
And the trees said to the fig, You come, reign over us.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the trees vnto the fygge tre: Come thou and be kynge ouer vs.

American Standard Version
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Bible in Basic English
Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the trees sayd to the figge tree: Come thou, and be kyng ouer vs.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.

King James Version (1611)
And the trees said to the Figge tree, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come, reign over us.

English Revised Version
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the trees seiden to the fige tree, Come thou, and take the rewme on vs.

Young's Literal Translation
And the trees say to the fig, Come thou, reign over us.

Update Bible Version
And the trees said to the fig-tree, You come, and reign over us.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us.

World English Bible
The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us.

New King James Version
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, "You come and reign over us!'

New Living Translation
"Then they said to the fig tree, ‘You be our king!'

New Life Bible
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and rule over us!'

New Revised Standard
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said the trees unto the fig-tree, - Come! thou reign over us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.

Revised Standard Version
And the trees said to the fig tree, 'Come you, and reign over us.'

THE MESSAGE
The trees then said to Fig Tree, "You come and rule over us." But Fig Tree said to them, "Am I no longer good for making sweets, My mouthwatering sweet fruits, and to be demoted to waving over trees?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come, reign over us!'

Contextual Overview

⁷ Toe hulle dit aan Jotam meedeel, het hy op die top van die berg Gerísim gaan staan en sy stem verhef en uitgeroep en aan hulle gesê: Luister na my, burgers van Sigem, sodat God na julle kan luister. ⁸ Eendag het die bome gegaan om 'n koning oor hulle te salf en aan die olyfboom gesê: Wees koning oor ons! ⁹But Michael the archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" ¹⁰But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have poured themselves into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹²These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; ¹³wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. ¹⁴But Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, ¹⁵to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." ¹⁶These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of their own benefit.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:30 - them

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:5
Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every living thing I will require it. And from every man, from each man's brother I will require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood,By man his blood shall be shed,For in the image of GodHe made man.

Genesis 9:15
and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:16
So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

Psalms 145:9
Yahweh is good to all,And His compassions are over all His works.

Jonah 4:11
So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the trees said to the fig tree,.... Another useful and fruit bearing tree, and to which also good men are sometimes compared, see Song of Solomon 2:13,

come thou, and reign over us: which Jarchi applies to Deborah, but may be better applied to one of Gideon's sons, who, though they had not a personal offer of kingly government themselves, yet it was made to them through their father, and refused, as for himself, so for them; and had it been offered to them, they would have rejected it, as Jotham seems to intimate by this parable.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This fable and that noted in the marginal reference are the only two of the kind found in Scripture. Somewhat different are the parables of the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 12:1-4; 2 Samuel 14:5-11; 1 Kings 20:39-40.

Judges 9:9

Honour God and man - Alluding to the constant use of oil in the meat-offerings Leviticus 2:1-16, and in the holy ointment Exodus 30:24-25. In like manner, the allusion in Judges 9:13 is to the drink-offerings of wine. See Leviticus 23:13; Numbers 15:10.

Judges 9:14

The bramble - Said to be the Rhamnus Paliurus of Linnaeus, otherwise called Spina-Christi, or Christ’s Thorn, a shrub with sharp thorns. The application is obvious. The noble Gideon and his worthy sons had declined the proffered kingdom. The vile, base-born Abimelech had accepted it, and his act would turn out to the mutual ruin of himself and his subjects.

Judges 9:15

If in truth - i. e. consistently with truth, honor, and uprightness, as explained in the interpretation in Judges 9:16, Judges 9:19.

Let fire come out ... - The propriety of the image is strictly preserved, for even the thorns of the worthless bramble might kindle a flame which would burn the stately cedars to the ground. See Psalms 58:9.

Judges 9:16-20

These verses contain the interpretation of the fable. In them Jotham points out the base ingratitude of the people in raising Abimelech upon the ruin of Gideon’s house, and foretells the retribution which would fall upon both parties.