The fable of the bramble -part 1

 When the bible wants to share with us, his lovely readers, important messages, we will find a lot of descriptions that relates to nature. It seems to be that in The Scriptures everyone wants to be a king, priest, prophet, Levite and hero. But the saying is that no one human can replace the real king, the real prophet, the real priest-
This is off-course The Lord.

In the book of Judges, we can find the first seeds that try to replace The Almighty with the human person. First was Gideon who was asked by the some of the people the Israel to be a king. Gideon refused, but it seems to be that in his genes was the idea that was in abimelech, his son.

After killing all the seventy brothers that he had, we can find in Judges 9:6 this verse:

"וַיֵּאָסְפוּ כָּל-בַּעֲלֵי שְׁכֶם, וְכָל-בֵּית מִלּוֹא, וַיֵּלְכוּ, וַיַּמְלִיכוּ אֶת-אֲבִימֶלֶךְ לְמֶלֶךְ--עִם-אֵלוֹן מֻצָּב, אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁכֶם"

"And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all Beth-millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the terebinth of the pillar that was in Shechem"

If you are alone in the family with the genes of royalty, so you can be a king without any problems. The problem is that one of the seventy remained alive, and this brother is not going to be quiet with the killing of the brothers (some will say the killing of the idea that only God is the king)

To be continued...

Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation

Hebrew   Transcription Translation
מֶלֶךְ         melek          King
מָשָׁל         māšāl         Fable
שִׁבְעִים       Šib'îm        Seventy
אָח            'āh             Brother
הֶרֶג           hereg        Killing
שְׁאִיפָה        Še'îpāh     Ambition

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