The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed
by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
CH2 25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine
heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou
meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah
with thee?
CH2 25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might
deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after
the gods of Edom.
CH2 25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another
in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which
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