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A symbolic inset-like landscape of a low thornbush beside a towering cedar in Lebanon, with a wild animal’s distant tracks; the fable is visualized without literal kings.
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2 Kings 14:9

Thornbush and cedar

Amaziah and Jeroboam · 2 Kings 14

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9Then Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thornbush that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ And a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thornbush.”

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