...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.' 16 "Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have...

...their only king. All the good trees refused any such power over other trees, but the bramble said, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come...devour the .cedars of Lebanon. Judges ix. 8 — 15. The tongue setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is «et on fire of hell. James iii. 6. And...

...biblical 'fire [that] will come out and devour them all' (p. 76), deriving from the bramble's threat: 'Let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon' (Judges 9.15). lago also promises to turn Desdemona's 'virtue into pitch' (2.3.351). Doeg recalls Isaiah's...

...But the thorny bramble, when it was offered the leadership, accepted with alacrity, crying out 'Now let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' This rather clumsy bit of word play (Espinosa-spina-thorn-bramble) was meant to offset Combes's earlier...

...has chosen to rule. "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...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." The people have chosen the anointing, the fruit, and the wine, but God has chosen the bramble bush...

...promoted over the trees? 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...your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come. . . and devour the cedars of Lebanon. — Judges 9:8-15 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not...

...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.' 16 "Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have...

...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.' (16) Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have...

...said, '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' " (Judg. 9:8-15J. No useful tree wants to be king, only the bramble. Entangling itself around the other...

...at last they offered a king crown to the bramble and the bramble accepted and said, "If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow." Will you also elect the bramble over you as King, Douglas as President, saying unto you, "You will...