Judges 9:9
Good News Translation
The olive tree answered, 'In order to govern you, I would have to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and human beings.'

New Revised Standard Version
The olive tree answered them, ‘Shall I stop producing my rich oil by which gods and mortals are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’

Contemporary English Version
But the olive tree replied, "My oil brings honor to people and gods. I won't stop making oil, just so my branches can wave above the other trees."

New American Bible
But the olive tree answered them, ‘Must I give up my rich oil, whereby gods and human beings are honored, and go off to hold sway over the trees?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?

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Exodus 29:2,7 And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all of wheaten flour. . . .

Exodus 35:14 The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:

Leviticus 2:1 When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,

1 Kings 19:15,16 And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the desert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; . . .

Psalm 89:20 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

Psalm 104:15 And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Acts 10:38 Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

1 John 2:20 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.

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Job 1:7 And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

Job 2:2 That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered, and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

Context
Jotham's Parable
8The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. 9And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?10And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.…
Cross References
Judges 9:8
The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.

Judges 9:10
And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.

Judges 9:8
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