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Judges 9:8
New English Translation
Judges 9:8
New English Translation
8 “The trees were determined to go out[a] and choose a king for themselves.[b] They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’[c]
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- Judges 9:8 tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”
- Judges 9:8 tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
- Judges 9:8 tn Or “Rule over us!”
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