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Anointing in Consecration of Kings Judges 9:8, 15

One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’ / But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’