Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
And the trees say to the fig, Come thou, reign over us.
ASV
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
WEB
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
DBT
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, reign over us.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy