Księga Sędziów 9:10

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba

Mówią więc drzewa do figowca: A może ty?! Panuj nad nami!

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Rzekły potym drzewa do figi: Pódź ty a bądź królem naszym.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Rzekły potem drzewa do figowego drzewa: Pójdź ty, króluj nad nami.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Więc powiedziały do figowca: Ty bądź naszym królem!

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Rzekły potem drzewa do figowego drzewa: Pójdź ty, króluj nad nami.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Potem drzewa powiedziały do drzewa figowego: Chodź ty i króluj nad nami.

Biblia Warszawska
Wtedy rzekły drzewa do drzewa figowego: Nuże! Zostań ty naszym królem!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:30 - them

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.