6 Subsequently all the landowners of Sheʹchem and all the house of Milʹlo+ gathered together and went and made A·bimʹe·lech reign as king,+ close by the big tree,+ the pillar that was in Sheʹchem.+

9 At that Je·hoʹash the king of Israel sent to Am·a·ziʹah the king of Judah, saying: “The thorny weed itself that was in Lebʹa·non sent to the cedar+ that was in Lebʹa·non, saying, ‘Do give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ However, a wild beast of the field that was in Lebʹa·non passed by and trampled the thorny weed down.+

25 The house of the self-exalted ones Jehovah will tear down,+ but he will fix the boundary of the widow.+

18 Pride is before a crash,+ and a haughty spirit* before stumbling.+