Judges 9:8
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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
Footnotes
- 19 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 Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
- 21 Or “Rule over us!”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The trees decided
to anoint a king over themselves.
They said to the olive tree, “Reign over us.”
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NLTNew Living Translation
Once upon a time the trees decided to choose a king.
First they said to the olive tree,
‘Be our king!’
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“The trees went certainly,
to anoint a king over themselves.
And they said to the olive tree,
‘Rule over us.’
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
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