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- The refusal of the olive tree, fig tree, and vine represent good men like Gideon who would refuse kingship because the LORD alone is Israel's king. However, the bramble represents the wicked Abimelech. And the people get what they ask for when they make Abimelech king. A bramble is a dry, thorny bush that can provide nothing but destruction.
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The bramble--atad--is rather the rhamnus, or buckthorn, which Dioscorides calls the Cartha ginian atadin. There seems to be an echo of this fable in 'sop's fable of the fox and the thorn, where the fox is dreadfully rent by taking hold of the thorn to save himself from a fall, and the thorn asks him what else he could expect.
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(14) Unto the bramble. —Despairing of their best, they avail...
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Mar 23, 2017 · We cry out for a king, and Jesus answers the call. For all who will trust him, he is eternal provision, everlasting security, and infinite favor. He is the vine (John 15:5); all else is bramble. (This is a slightly edited excerpt from The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables)
Jotham, who escaped into exile, does not reappear thereafter in the biblical record, but his brief appearance and the parable of the trees provides a powerful testimony and insight into the danger posed by the self-centered leader who aims at ascending to power and position via dominance.
14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You come and reign over us!’. 15 And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me as king over you, Then come and take shelter in my shade; But if not, let fire come out of the bramble. And devour the cedars of Lebanon!’.
Judges 9:15. ESV And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’. NIV The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my ...
Jotham’s Parable - When Jotham heard about this, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted, “Listen to me, citizens of Shechem! Listen to me if you want God to listen to you! Once upon a time ...
