009:009 But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? 009:010 The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us. 009:011 But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? 009:012 The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us. 009:013 The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? 009:014 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, and reign over us. 009:015 The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. 009:016 Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands 009:017 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: 009:018 and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); 009:019 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: 009:020 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. 009:021 Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. 009:022 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years. 009:023 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: 009:024 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. 009:025 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. 009:026 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. 009:027 They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house