The interpretation timeline

2Kgs 14:8

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2Kgs 14:8 · Douay-Rheims

“Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz, son of Jehu king of Israel, saying: Come let us see one another.”

Medieval c. 750 – 1100

850

A.D.

Ishodad of Merv Medieval

d. A.D. 850

“The thorn bush [mentioned here] is a tiny plant and herb and is not the blackberry bush, [whose fruits] we eat. "Since, if ever," he says, "the thorn bush were sent to a cedar, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' it would be an insult and an act of derision, since the thorn bush is much smaller than the cedar, so you, Amaziah, do not differ at all from the thorn bush, if compared with my power." By the cedar and the wild beast Jehoash signifies himself.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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