Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots, horses, a fortified city, and weaponry, 3 select the most qualified of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house. 4 However, they were terrified and reasoned, “Look, two kings couldn’t stand against him; how can we?”


Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:14-15

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, take possession of it, live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,’

1 Samuel 10:24

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among the entire population.”

And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 11:15

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there in the Lord’s presence they made Saul king. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings in the Lord’s presence, and Saul and all the men of Israel greatly rejoiced.

2 Samuel 2:8-9

Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth and moved him to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 2:12-17

Abner son of Ner and soldiers of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

1 Kings 1:24-25

“My lord the king,” Nathan said, “did you say, ‘Adonijah is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne’?

1 Kings 12:20-21

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

John 18:36

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

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