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Judges Chapter 9 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Judges 9:14

Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
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BBE Judges 9:14

Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.
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DARBY Judges 9:14

Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'Come you, and reign over us.'
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KJV Judges 9:14

Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
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WBT Judges 9:14

Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
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WEB Judges 9:14

Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, and reign over us.
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YLT Judges 9:14

And all the trees say unto the bramble, Come thou, reign over us.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - The bramble. A prickly shrub; in Greek ῤαμνος, Rhamnus, "the southern buckthorn" (Gesenins). The same plant as is mentioned in Psalm 58:9 (thorns, A.V.) as used to make fires with (see note to ver. 7).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Unto the bramble.--Despairing of their best, they avail themselves of the unscrupulous ambition of their worst. The bramble--atad--is rather the rhamnus, or buckthorn, which Dioscorides calls the Cartha ginian atadin. There seems to be an echo of this fable in 'sop's fable of the fox and the thorn, where the fox is dreadfully rent by taking hold of the thorn to save himself from a fall, and the thorn asks him what else he could expect.Reign over us.--They seem to address the thorn in a less ceremonious imperative--not m?lekah, as to the olive, or m?leki, as to the fig-tree and vine, but a mere blunt mel?k!