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2 Chronicles 25:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Chronicles 25:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 King Joash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.(A) 19 You say, ‘See, I[a] have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. Now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”(B)
20 But Amaziah would not listen—it was God’s doing, in order to hand them over because they had sought the gods of Edom.(C)
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- 25.19 Gk ms OL Tg Vg: Heb you
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