Discovery Box2 Kings 7:17 
Context7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 1 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 2 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 3
2 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal 4 of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. 5
1 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
2 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
3 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
4 tn Heb “the animal of the field.”
5 sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).
