A moment in scripture
Judges 9:16
Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;
The surrounding passage
- Judges 9:14
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:15
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
- Judges 9:17
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
- Judges 9:18
And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.