Study it in the app“The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come, take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’”
The thornbushהָאָטָדsaidוַיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלthe trees,הָעֵצִים‘Ifאִםin truthבֶּאֱמֶתyouאַתֶּםare anointingמֹשְׁחִיםmeאֹתִיas kingלְמֶלֶךְover you,עֲלֵיכֶםcome,בֹּאוּtake refugeחֲסוּin my shade;בְצִלִּיbut ifוְאִםnot,אַיִןlet fireאֵשׁcome outתֵּצֵאfromמִןthe thornbushהָאָטָדand consumeוְתֹאכַלthe cedarsאֶת אַרְזֵיof Lebanon.’הַלְּבָנוֹן
Atad; thornbush
Thornbush, bramble; Atad, the name of a place.
Where else “atad” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearstree
A tall plant with trunk and branches, giving fruit, shade or timber.
Where else “etsim” appearstruth
What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.
Where else “emet” appearsanoint
To pour oil on someone to set them apart for God.
Where else “moshchim” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “bou” appearstake refuge
Take refuge: seek shelter in someone.
Where else “chasu” appearsshade
Protecting shade: "in the shadow of your wings".
Where else “tsili” appearsfire
Fire that burns or cooks.
Where else “esh” appearsspring up
To spring up, be born, come from something.
Where else “tetse” appearsdevour
Literally "eat": to destroy something, as fire burns everything up.
Where else “tochal” appearscedar
Cedar: a large tree with fragrant, lasting wood.
Where else “arze” appearsLebanon
See it on the mapWhere else “levanon” appearsLebanon
Today: Lebanon (Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges)
A mountain range north of Israel, famous for its cedars; today it gives its name to the country of Lebanon.
Solomon asked for cedar wood from Lebanon to build the temple (1 Kgs 5:6). The Psalms compare the righteous to its cedars (Ps 92:12).
14Then all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come, you, reign over us.’
15 · This verse (above)
16Now then, if you have acted in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if you have done to him as his hands deserved —
