 | Thomas Blackwell - Mythology - 1748 - 456 pages
...Bramble faid unto the Trees, * If in truth you anoint me King over you, then c come and put your truft in my Shadow ; and ' if not, let Fire come out of the Bramble and * devour the Cedars of Lebanon.' I NAMED a third Sort of Mythology that would perhaps furprize you at firft hearing, and which will... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 498 pages
...unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me " king over you, then come and put your truft " in my fhadow: and if not, let fire come " out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of " Lebanon'." How1 abounding with them ; and infinuates to the Shechemites the vanity and pitiful original of their... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 520 pages
...come and fhel» * Judg. viii. ad fin. » Judg. ix. ver, 7, adzi. ter themfelves under its fhadows; if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." Some interpreters fuppofe, that by the olive, the figtree, and the vine, he alluded to Othniel, Deborah,... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 696 pages
..." And the Bramble faid if in truth ye.annoint " me King, come and put your truft in nrty " fhadow, and if not, let fire come out of " the Bramble and devour the Cedars of La•" baiion : The fire of the Bramble, (fo fhort and momentary in the Eaftern Countries,) was to... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. And Jotham ran away and fled for fear of Abimelech his brother. When Abimelech reigned three years... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 428 pages
...hesita15 tion, and began to look big. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow ; give up yourselves wholly to my conduct, and rely on my protection, and I mill be ture to secure... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...phrase plainly implies ; Judges i'x. 15. " And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king ove'r you, then come and put your trust in my...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." We have an account of the fulfilment of this parablfe in the sequel. ...How the men of Shecherti did... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...plainly implies ; Judges ix. 15. • " And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; ami, if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." We have an account... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...bramble. Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me e which I have built ! 19 Have respect therefore to...his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the 16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Ab'imelech king, and if... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 632 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, if in truth ye anoint me King orer you, then come, and put our trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. Judg, ix. 15. NOT far from Munster, one of the chief cities of Westphalia, is a church, dedicated to... | |
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Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the... 
