2 Kings 14:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ Amaziah killed ten thousand Edomite soldiers in Salt Valley; he captured the city of Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, the name it still has.

⁸ Then Amaziah sent messengers to King Jehoash of Israel, challenging him to fight.^{[a] 9} But King Jehoash sent back the following reply: “Once a thorn bush on the Lebanon Mountains sent a message to a cedar: ‘Give your daughter in marriage to my son.’ A wild animal passed by and trampled the bush down.