Discovery BoxJudges 9:15 
Context9:15 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
Context9:49 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.
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.
