This fable and the one mentioned in the margin are the only two of their kind found in Scripture. The parables of the Old Testament are somewhat di…

Seventy persons. —See Note on Judges 9:5.

The son of his maidservant. —The term is intentionally contemptuo…

And you are risen up against my father's house this day
Which was an instance of great ingratitude in them, after su…

There was no occasion for the trees to choose a king; they are all the trees of the Lord that He has planted. Nor was there any occasion for Israel…