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 # 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/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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-# thistle
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-type of bush with thorns
+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. 
 
 # 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/jit/figs-quotations]])
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+"asking the cedar to give his daughter to the thistle's son for a wife"