Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

King James Version

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Holman Bible

Never seek their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

International Standard Version

Don't seek a peace treaty with them as long as you live.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Amplified

You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.

Bible in Basic English

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not seek their peace and their good all thy days to forever.

King James 2000

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt never, therefore, seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days forever.

NET Bible

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

New Heart English Bible

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their welfare, - all thy days, unto times age-abiding.

Webster

Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

World English Bible

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Youngs Literal Translation

thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Cross References

Ezra 9:12

Now, therefore, do not give your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that ye may be strengthened, and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your sons forever.

2 Samuel 8:2

He also smote those of Moab and measured them with a line, causing them to lie down on the ground, and he measured them with two lines, with one to put to death and the other full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's slaves, bringing presents.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln, and thus did he unto all the cities of the sons of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:23-25

In those days I also saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

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