2 Kings 10:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.””
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“select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye have seen the best and the uprightest of the sons of your lord, and have set <FI>him<Fi> on the throne of his father, and fight ye for the house of your lord.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 10:3 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 17:14When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
- 1 Samuel 10:24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
- 1 Samuel 11:15So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.
- 2 Samuel 2:8Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
- 2 Samuel 2:12One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- 1 Kings 1:24“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’?
- 1 Kings 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
- John 18:36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”
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