2 Kings 10:3 “select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his fat…”

2 Kings 10:3

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Consider therefore which of your masters sonnes is best and most meete, and set him on his fathers throne, and fight for your masters house.

Darby Translation

look 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.

Young's Literal Translation

and 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.'

Bible in Basic English

Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.

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Cross references

“Look even”

1 Samuel 10:24 1 Samuel 11:15 Deuteronomy 17:14 Deuteronomy 17:15 2 Samuel 2:8 2 Samuel 2:9

1 Samuel 10:24 · BSB

Samuel 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 11:15 · BSB

So 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.

Deuteronomy 17:14 · BSB

When 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,”

Deuteronomy 17:15 · BSB

you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

2 Samuel 2:8 · BSB

Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

2 Samuel 2:9 · BSB

and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.

“fight for”

2 Samuel 2:12–17 John 18:36 1 Kings 12:21

2 Samuel 2:12–17 · BSB

One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

John 18:36 · BSB

Jesus 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.”

1 Kings 12:21 · BSB

And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weaponry,

4But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”

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