Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
WEB
Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’
YLT
And all the trees say unto the bramble, Come thou, reign over us.
DBT
Then said all the trees to the thorn-bush, Come thou, reign over us.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy