So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family<n id="1" /> today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!<n id="2" />

The thornbush said to the trees, &#8216;If you really want to choose<n id="1" /> me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches!<n id="2" /> Otherwise<n id="3" /> may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family,<n id="1" /> if you have properly repaid him<n id="2" /> &#8211;