2 Kings 14:10
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Kings 14 holds the record of Amaziah's reign over Judah, which began well but ended wickedly as part of Judah's departure from God toward captivity. The verse also belongs to the continuing sad story of transgression, war, strife, defeat, captivity, and conspiracy connected with the ten-tribe kingdom. It shows Amaziah's heart lifted up with pride after his victory over Edom.
The verse belongs to the parable of the thistle and the cedar, in which the thistle proposes a marriage alliance to the cedar, and the thistle speaking and acting like a rational person shows that Scripture ascribes sentiments, speech, and actions to inanimate things. That personifying of the lifeless as living explains how the dead are also personified as speaking and acting about the facts of their cases as though alive.