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     * The thistle.
     # Jud 9:8-15; 2Sa 12:1-4; 1Ki 4:33; Eze 20:49|
       The word {choach,} which is rendered here, and in 2; Ch 25:18;
       Job 31:18, thistle, in 1; Sa 13:6, thicket in Isa 34:13,
       bramble, and in 2; Ch 33:11; Pr 26:9; So 2:2; Ho 9:6; thorn, is
       probably the black thorn, or sloe tree, the {prunus spinosa}
       of Linn(9175)s, as the same word signifies in Arabic.  There is a
       vast deal of insolent dignity in this remonstrance of Jehoash;
       but it has nothing conciliatory; no proposal of making amends
       for the injury his army had done to the unoffending
       inhabitants of Judah.  (2; Ch 25:10-13.)  The comparatively
       useless thorn, which may by chance lacerate the incautious
       passenger, is made the emblem of the house of Judah and David,
       while the house of Jehu is represented by the stately cedar.