2 Kings 14:9

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Joas king of Israel sent again to Amasias king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar-tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed and trod down the thistle.

Cross References

Hosea 9:6

For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

Ezekiel 20:49

And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons and the pasture of ostriches.

Song of Solomon 2:2

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Proverbs 26:9

As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Job 31:18

(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 25:18

But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in Libanus sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And behold, the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus passed by, and trod down the thistle.

1 Kings 4:33

And he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Samuel 13:6

And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.

Exodus 3:2

And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If the foot should say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?