'Rule Over' in the Bible

Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you as well as your sons and your grandsons, for you delivered us from the power of Midian.”

But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”

“Please speak in the presence of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that 70 men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you or that one man rule over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

But the olive tree said to them,“Should I stop giving my oilthat honors both God and man,and rule over the trees?”

But the fig tree said to them,“Should I stop givingmy sweetness and my good fruit,and rule over trees?”

But the grapevine said to them,“Should I stop giving my winethat cheers both God and man,and rule over trees?”

Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?”“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.