Judges 9:10
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
BSB
ASV
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
KJV
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
And the trees said to the fig tree,.... Another useful and fruit bearing tree, and to which also good men are sometimes compared, see Son 2:13, come thou, and reign over us: which Jarchi applies to Deborah, but may be better applied to one of Gideon's sons, who, though they had not a personal offer of kingly government themselves, yet it was made to them through their father, and refused, as for himself, so for them; and had it been offered to them, they would have rejected it, as Jotham seems to intimate by this parable.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.