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681 B
A thistle that was in Lebanon ... trampled down the thistle
This is a word picture and a riddle. A cedar tree is great and a thistle is small and worthless. Jehoash compares himself to the cedar and Amaziah to the thistle and warns Amaziah not to attack. If you have a similar comparison in your own language, you can use it. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
thistle
type of bush with thorns
saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,'
This direct quotation can be stated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "asking the cedar to give his daughter to the thistle's son for a wife" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations)