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2 Kings 10:4

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 fenced city also, and armour;

3 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.

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 the bringers up of 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 thine eyes.

6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

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BSB
But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
KJV
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
WEB
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
ASV
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
DARBY
And they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings stood not before him; and how shall we stand?
BLB
And they were afraid exceedingly greatly, and they said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand up to him, and how can we stand ourselves?”
ÅB
Men de ble meget forferdet og sa: De to konger holdt ikke stand mot ham; hvordan skulle da vi kunne det?
OTB
Men de var svært redde og sa, “Se, de to kongene kunne ikke stå imot ham; hvordan kan da vi stå imot?”
B1930
Men de blev meget forferdet og sa: De to konger holdt ikke stand mot ham; hvorledes skulde da vi kunne det?

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 9:24

    And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

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  • 2 Kings 9:27

    But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

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  • Isaiah 27:4

    Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

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  • Jeremiah 49:19

    Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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  • Nahum 1:6

    Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

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  • Luke 14:31

    Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

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