Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
New American Standard Bible
How then can you
King James Version
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Holman Bible
How then can you drive back a single officer among the weakest of my master’s officers and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
International Standard Version
How, then, can you repulse even one officer from the least of my master's officials, when you are depending for yourselves on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
A Conservative Version
How then can thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
American Standard Version
How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Amplified
How then can you repulse [the attack of] a single
Bible in Basic English
How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:
Darby Translation
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!
Julia Smith Translation
And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of the servants of my lord, the smallest of them, aid trust for thee upon Egypt for chariot and for horsemen I
King James 2000
How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Lexham Expanded Bible
But how can you drive back {one governor among the least of my master's servants}, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Seeing now that thou canst not resist the power of the smallest prince that my LORD hath, how darest thou trust in the chariots and horsemen of Egypt?
NET Bible
Certainly you will not refuse one of my master's minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.
New Heart English Bible
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
The Emphasized Bible
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one pasha of the least of my lords servants? Or hast thou on thy part trusted upon Egypt, for chariots and for horsemen?
Webster
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
World English Bible
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Youngs Literal Translation
And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 36:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
8 Now then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able on your part to set riders on them for you. 9 How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 Have I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 10:8
For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings?
Deuteronomy 17:16
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, because Jehovah has said to you, You shall return no more that way from now on.
2 Kings 18:24
And how will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Proverbs 21:31
The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but safety is from Jehovah.
Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 30:2-5
those who set out to go down to Egypt and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps vainly, and worthlessly. So I have cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Isaiah 30:16-17
But you said, No; for we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. And you said, We will ride on the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
Isaiah 31:3
And Egypt is a man, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not Spirit. When Jehovah shall stretch out His hand, both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall down, and they shall all cease together.
Isaiah 36:6
Lo, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which, if a man lean on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.