6. All the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered, and they went and made Abimelech as king, near the oak of the pillar that is at Shechem.
7. And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and he cried out loud and said to them, “Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.
8. “The trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, ‘Rule over us.’
9. And the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?’
10. Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You, come rule over us.’
11. But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?’
12. And the trees said to the vine, ‘You, come rule over us.’