Jotham’s Parable
Judges 9:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- KJV
- Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
- WEB
- “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- ASV
- And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
- LSV
- And the trees say to the vine, Come, reign over us.
- YLT
- 'And the trees say to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.
- DBY
- Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.
- DRC
- And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.
- GNV
- Then sayd the trees vnto the Vine, Come thou, and be king ouer vs.
- JPS
- And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.
- LXXE
- And the trees said to the vine, Come, reign over us.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads מָלְוכִ֥י; read aloud (Qere) reads מָלְכִ֥י (“reign”).
- Written (Ketiv): מָלוֹכִי. Read aloud (Qere): מָלְכִ֥י (“reign”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ הָעֵצִ֖ים לַגָּ֑פֶן לְכִי־אַ֖תְּ מלוכי עָלֵֽינוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): מָלְכִ֥י
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ εἶπαν τὰ ξύλα πρὸς τὴν ἄμπελον, δεῦρο, βασίλευσον ἐφʼ ἡμῶν.
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◆ Usurpation by Abimelech
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