Judges 9:15

9:15 The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose ¹  me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! ²  Otherwise ³  may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ⁴  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ⁵  All the people ⁶  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

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¹ tn Heb “are about to anoint [with oil].”

² tn Heb “in my shade.”

³ tn Heb “If not.”

⁴ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

⁶ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.