Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

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 of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

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!"

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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

and set
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

כּסּה כּסּא 
Kicce' 
Usage: 135

and fight
לחם 
Lacham 
Usage: 177

אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Jehu Continues Purging The House Of Ahab

2 “Now, when this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons, 3 select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.” 4 But they feared greatly and said, “Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how then can we stand?”


Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:14-15

“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

1 Samuel 10:24

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? Surely there is no one like him among all the people.” So all the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 11:15

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

2 Samuel 2:8-9

But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 2:12-17

Now Abner the son of Ner, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon with the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul.

1 Kings 1:24-25

Then Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?

1 Kings 12:20-21

It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. None but the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

John 18:36

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.”

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