2nd Kings Chapter 10 verse 3 Holy Bible
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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look you 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.
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Look even out the belt and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne. "Choose," i.e., "among the sons of Joram the strongest, the boldest, and the ablest, and make him king in his father's zoom; take him for your leader against me; do not hesitate and beat about the bush; but at once make up your minds, and let me know what I have to expect." And fight for your master's house. There had been a civil war before the dynasty of Omri succeeded in settling itself on the throne (1 Kings 16:21, 22). Jehu believes, or affects to believe, that there will now be another. He does not deprecate it, but invites it. Probably he felt tolerably confident that the garrison of Samaria, even if called upon by the municipality, would not venture to take up arms against the army of Ramoth-Gilead, which had declared itself in his favor. Still, supposing that it did, he was not fearful of the result.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) The best and meetest--i.e., the one you think best qualified in every sense (not merely in the moral sense).Your master's sons.--"Your master" need not mean Jehoram. The story relates to Ahab (2Kings 10:1).His father's throne--i.e., Ahab's throne. (Comp. 2Chronicles 17:3; 2Chronicles 21:12; 2Chronicles 29:2, where David is called the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Hezekiah in turn.)Fight for your master's house.--Jehu thus declares his own warlike intentions, leaving the nobles, whom his prompt and decisive action had taken by surprise, no choice between improvised resistance and instant submission. Knowing Jehu's character as a soldier, they chose the latter. . . .
