Judges 9:8

9:8 “The trees were determined to go out19 and choose a king for themselves.20 They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’21

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19	tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”
20	tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
21	tn Or “Rule over us!”