Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

New American Standard Bible

For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

King James Version

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

International Standard Version

However, before the youth knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated."

A Conservative Version

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhor shall be forsaken.

American Standard Version

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

Amplified

For before the child will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land (Canaan) whose two kings you dread will be deserted [both Ephraim and Aram].

Bible in Basic English

For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

Darby Translation

For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.

Julia Smith Translation

For before the boy shall know to reject in evil and to choose in good the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken from the face of its two kings.

King James 2000

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken by both her kings.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}

Modern King James verseion

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken before both its kings.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For before the child come to knowledge, to eschew the evil and chose the good, the land that thou so abhorest shall be desolate of both her kings.

NET Bible

Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.

New Heart English Bible

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

The Emphasized Bible

for before the boy knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good, forsaken shall be the land, at which, thou, art alarmed, of the presence of both her kings.

Webster

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.

World English Bible

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

Youngs Literal Translation

For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 239

to refuse
מאס 
Ma'ac 
Usage: 76

and choose
בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

קוּץ 
Quwts 
Usage: 8

shall be
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

of both
שׁתּים שׁנים 
Sh@nayim 
Usage: 767

References

Context Readings

The Immanuel Prophecy

15 By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating butter and honey. 16 For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. 17 The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria is coming.”



Cross References

Isaiah 8:4

for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.”

Deuteronomy 1:39

Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

2 Kings 15:29-30

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—and deported the people to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:9

So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.

Isaiah 9:11

The Lord has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him
and stirred up his enemies.

Isaiah 17:1-3

An oracle against Damascus:

Look, Damascus is no longer a city.
It has become a ruined heap.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will become a desolation
on the day of punishment;
I announce what is certain
among the tribes of Israel.

Amos 1:3-5

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Damascus
for three crimes, even four,
because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

Jonah 4:11

Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”

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