Text -- Judges 9:8 (NET)

9:8 “The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jdg 9:8

¹ tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”

² tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”

³ tn Or “Rule over us!”