12Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.
13But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?
14Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.
15And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.
16So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;
17(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;
18And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)
