Discovery BoxJudges 3:13 
Context3:13 Eglon formed alliances with 1 the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.
Judges 9:8
Context9:8 “The trees were determined to go out 2 and choose a king for themselves. 3 They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ 4
Judges 9:11
Context9:11 But the fig tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my sweet figs, my excellent fruit, just to sway above the other trees!’ 5
1 tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”
2 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.”
3 tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
4 tn Or “Rule over us!”
5 tn Heb “Should I stop my sweetness and my good fruit and go to sway over the trees? The negative sentence in the translation reflects the force of the rhetorical question.
