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 Jehovah your God was not willing to listen to Balaam. Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because Jehovah your God loves you. 6 You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days. 7 Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien (strangers) (guests) in his land.

Cross References

Ezra 9:12

Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well being for a very long time. That way you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for as long as they live.

2 Samuel 8:2

He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.

2 Samuel 12:31

David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.

Nehemiah 13:23-25

I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

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