# 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. 

# saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,'

"asking the cedar to give his daughter to the thistle's son for a wife"