BRAGADAYJAH 738
So according to Jotham’s figurative song, none of the trees, neither the
olive tree, the fig tree, nor the vine would have anything to do with being
appointed king. Theirs was to remain in their station to be what they were
meant to be and to do what it was their calling to do. So they turned to the thorn-bush whose
response was; “if you have acted in good faith in appointing Abimelech king,
then come and make your bed among my thorns, (under my shadow), or if not let
fire come down and consume you and Abimelech both.” The reference to the cedars
of Lebanon. Speaking more plainly, Jotham now proclaimed, “Now then if you have
acted in good faith and integrity in appointing Abimelech your king, if you
acted with good will towards Jerubbaal and his house, and if you have treated
him as he deserved, remembering that my father fought for you at the risk of
his life, and delivered you from the power of the Median king, seeing now you
have risen up and killed his seventy sons, and made Abimelech, the son of his
maidservant king over the lords of Shechem, if you can truly say you acted in
good faith and integrity towards the house of Jerubbaal and his house today,
then rejoice in Abimelech and let him in return rejoice for you. But if not,
let fire come forth from Abimelech and consume all the lords of Beth-millo and
let fire come forth from the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo and consume Abimelech.”
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