The Parable of the Trees

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you!

Nathan’s Parable and David’s Confession

Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: “There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

“Son of man, pose a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They say of me, ‘Does he not speak parables?’ ”

And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Put on a pot, set it on, And also pour water into it.