Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
select the best and most qualified of your master's sons, set him in place on his father's throne, and fight for your master's dynasty!"
New American Standard Bible
select the best and
King James Version
Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Holman Bible
select the most qualified
A Conservative Version
look ye out for the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
American Standard Version
look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Amplified
select the best and most capable of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s [royal] house.”
Bible in Basic English
Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.
Darby Translation
look out the best and worthiest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Julia Smith Translation
And see the good and the straight of your lord's sons, and set upon the throne of his father, and war for the house of your lord.
King James 2000
Choose the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Lexham Expanded Bible
then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place [him] on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters."
Modern King James verseion
even look for the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore choose the best, and him that most pleaseth you of your master's sons, and put him on his father's seat, and fight for your lord's house."
NET Bible
pick the best and most capable of your master's sons, place him on his father's throne, and defend your master's dynasty."
New Heart English Bible
Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
The Emphasized Bible
ye shall look out the goodliest and fittest of the sons of your lord, and set on the throne of his father, and ye shall do battle for the house of your lord.
Webster
Look out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
World English Bible
Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye have seen the best and the uprightest of the sons of your lord, and have set him on the throne of his father, and fight ye for the house of your lord.'
Themes
Ahab » King of israel » Sons of, murdered
Children » Edict to murder » Of jehu
Enthusiasm » Instances of » Jehu
Homicide » Instances of felonious » Jehu
Jehu » Son of nimshi, king of israel » Religious zeal of, in killing idolaters
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 10:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jehu Continues Purging The House Of Ahab
2 "As soon as you receive this letter (since your master's children are with you, you have chariots and horses there with you, and you are protected by a walled city and weaponry), 3 select the best and most qualified of your master's sons, set him in place on his father's throne, and fight for your master's dynasty!" 4 But they were too terrified, and so they told one another, "Look! Two previous kings couldn't stand up to Jehu, so how can we?"
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:14-15
"When you have come to the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, and you have taken possession of it, and have settled in it, then you will say, "I will appoint a king over me like all the nations around me.'
1 Samuel 10:24
Then Samuel told all the people, "Do you see the man whom the LORD has chosen? For there is no one like him among all the people." Then all the people shouted, "Long live the king!"
1 Samuel 11:15
So all the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul king in the LORD's presence in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings in the LORD's presence, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
2 Samuel 2:8-9
Meanwhile, Ner's son Abner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth and brought him to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:12-17
Ner's son Abner and the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth set out from Mahanaim for Gibeon.
1 Kings 1:24-25
When he had been ushered into the presence of the king, Nathan bowed low in front of the king with his face to the ground and asked, "Your majesty, did you say "Adonijah will be king after me and will sit on my throne'?
1 Kings 12:20-21
Now when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him and invited him to visit their assembly, where they installed him as king over all of Israel. Nobody (with the sole exception of the tribe of Judah) would align with David's dynasty.
John 18:36
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."