2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in 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.
Cross-reference
In Judges 9:8, Jotham's parable of trees anointing a king is the same parabolic style Jehoash uses with the thistle and cedar.
In 2 Samuel 12:1-4, Nathan's parable of the ewe lamb similarly rebukes a king, mirroring the thistle-and-cedar parable's purpose.
2 Chronicles 25:10-13 recounts the same historical event—Amaziah dismissing Israelite troops—providing the background for Jehoash's parable.
2 Chronicles 25:18 gives the identical parable of the thistle and cedar in the parallel account of the same event.
Judges 9:14 contains Jotham's bramble parable—a lowly plant threatening a cedar—directly mirroring the thistle's boast here.
Judges 9:15 continues the bramble's threat to devour cedars, identical in structure to the thistle's warning in this parable.