3Look 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.


In Context

1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,

2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;

3 Look 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.

4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?

5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thy eyes.

2 Kings 10:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:3choose the best and most worthy of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne. Then fight for your master's house."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:3Look 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:3Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:3look 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:3look out the best and worthiest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:3look 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:3Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:3and ye have seen the best and the uprightest of the sons of your lord, and have set him on the throne of his father, and fight ye for the house of your lord.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:3Look even out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.