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So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and with this Abimelech paid violent adventurers to follow him. (Judges 9, 4)
One day the trees went out to anoint a king to rule them. They said to the olive tree, 'Be our king!' (Judges 9, 8)
The olive tree replied, 'Must I forgo my oil which gives honour to gods and men, to stand and sway over the trees?' (Judges 9, 9)
Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and be our king!' (Judges 9, 10)
Then the trees said to the vine, 'You come and be our king!' (Judges 9, 12)
Then the trees all said to the thorn bush, 'You come and be our king!' (Judges 9, 14)
And the thorn bush replied to the trees, 'If you are anointing me in good faith to be your king, come and shelter in my shade. But, if not, fire will come out of the thorn bush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' (Judges 9, 15)
'Now then, if you have acted in sincerity and good faith in making Abimelech king, if you have dealt honourably with Jerubbaal and his family, and have treated him as his actions deserved, (Judges 9, 16)
and you today having risen up against my father's family, murdered his sons -- seventy of them on one and the same stone -- and appointed Abimelech, his slave-girl's son, to rule the leading men of Shechem, because he is your brother!- (Judges 9, 18)
if, I say, you have acted in sincerity and good faith towards Jerubbaal and his family, then may Abimelech be your joy and may you be his! (Judges 9, 19)
If not, may fire come out of Abimelech and devour the leading men of Shechem and Beth-Millo, and fire come out of the leading men of Shechem and Beth-Millo to devour Abimelech!' (Judges 9, 20)
And this was so that the crime committed against Jerubbaal's seventy sons should be avenged, and their blood recoil on their brother Abimelech who had murdered them, and on those leaders of Shechem who had helped him to murder his brothers. (Judges 9, 24)