(A)He struck down ten thousand Edomites in (B)the Valley of Salt and took (C)Sela by storm, and called it (D)Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

(E)Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash[a] the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, (F)let us look one another in the face.” And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, (G)“A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:8 Jehoash is an alternate spelling of Joash (son of Jehoahaz) as in 13:9, 12–14; also verses 9, 11–16

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