2 Kings 18:24

Bishop's Bible

Why thinkest thou scorne at the presence of one of the least Dukes of my maisters seruauntes, and trustest to Egypt for charets and horsmen?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Hebrew Names Version
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Mitzrayim for chariots and for horsemen?

King James Version
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

English Standard Version
How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

New Century Version
You cannot defeat one of my master's least important officers, so why do you depend on Egypt to give you chariots and horsemen?

New English Translation
Certainly you will not refuse one of my master's minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

Amplified Bible
"How then can you drive back even one official of the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

New American Standard Bible
"How then can you drive back even one official of the least of my master's servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

World English Bible
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Geneva Bible (1587)
For how canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and horsemen?

Legacy Standard Bible
How then can you turn away one official of the least of my master's servants, and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Berean Standard Bible
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master's servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Contemporary English Version
How could you even defeat our lowest ranking officer, when you have to depend on Egypt for chariots and cavalry?

Complete Jewish Bible
How then can you repulse even one of my master's lowest-ranked army officers? Yet you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders!

Darby Translation
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!

Easy-to-Read Version
But even then you couldn't beat one of my master's lowest ranking officers. So why do you still depend on Egypt's chariots and horse soldiers?

George Lamsa Translation
How then will you refuse the request of one of the least nobles of my masters servants and put your trust in the Egyptian to give you chariots and horsemen?

Good News Translation
You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and cavalry!

Lexham English Bible
How can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master? Yet you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!

Literal Translation
And how will you turn back the face of one prefect of the least of the servants of my lord, that you trust for yourself upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
how wilt thou then endure before the smallest prynce of my lordes subiectes? And trustest thou vnto Egipte because of the charettes and horsmen?

American Standard Version
How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Bible in Basic English
How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my masters servants? and yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!

King James Version (1611)
How then wilt thou turne away the face of one captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and for horsemen?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one petty governor, from among the least of my lord’s servants? whereas thou trustest for thyself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

English Revised Version
How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And hou moun ye withstonde bifor o prince of the leste seruauntis of my lord? Whether thou hast trist in Egipt, for charis and knyytis?

Young's Literal Translation
And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, that thou dost trust for thee on Egypt for chariot, and for horsemen?

Update Bible Version
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's slaves, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Webster's Bible Translation
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

New King James Version
How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

New Living Translation
With your tiny army, how can you think of challenging even the weakest contingent of my master's troops, even with the help of Egypt's chariots and charioteers?

New Life Bible
How can you fight back one captain among the least of my ruler's servants, when you trust Egypt for war-wagons and horsemen?

New Revised Standard
How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How then wilt thou turn back the face of one pasha of the least of my lord's servants? Or hast thou, on thy part, trusted to Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master’s servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Revised Standard Version
How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, & Rabsakeh from Lachis, to king Hezekia with a great hoast against Hierusalem: And they went vp, and came to Hierusalem, and gat them vp and stoode by the conduite of the vpper poole, whiche is in the way of the fullers fielde. ¹⁸ And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Elkia, which was stewarde of the houshold, and Sobna the scribe, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph, the recorder. ¹⁹ And Rabsakeh sayd vnto them: Tell ye Hezekia I pray you, thus sayth the great king, euen the king of Assyria: what confidence is this that thou hast? ²⁰ Thou thinkest surely I haue eloquece, but counsell and strength are for the warre: On whom then doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? ²¹ Doest thou trust to the staffe of this broken reede Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will go into his hande, & pearse it: Euen so is Pharao king of Egypt vnto all that trust on hym. ²² If ye say vnto me, we trust in the Lorde our God: Is not that he whose hygh places and whose aulters Hezekia hath put downe? and hath sayd to Iuda and Hierusalem, ye shall worship before this aulter here in Hierusalem. ²³ Nowe therfore I pray thee geue hostages to my lorde the king of Assyria, and I will deliuer thee two thousande horses, if thou be able to set ryders vpon them: ²⁴ Why thinkest thou scorne at the presence of one of the least Dukes of my maisters seruauntes, and trustest to Egypt for charets and horsmen? ²⁵ Moreouer, am I come nowe without the bidding of the Lorde to this place, to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go vp to this lande, and destroy it. ²⁶ And Eliakim the sonne of Helkia, and Sobna, & Ioah, sayde vnto Rabsakeh: Speake I pray thee to thy seruauntes in the Syrians language (for we vnderstande it) and talke not with vs in the Iewes tongue in the eares of this people that are on the wall.

Bible Verse Review
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How then: Isaiah 10:8, Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:38, Daniel 4:22, Daniel 4:37

thy trust: 2 Kings 18:21, Deuteronomy 17:16, Isaiah 31:1, Isaiah 31:3, Isaiah 36:6, Isaiah 36:9, Jeremiah 37:7, Jeremiah 42:14-18, Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 17:17

chariots: Psalms 20:7, Psalms 20:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:9 - chariots 1 Samuel 17:42 - disdained

Cross-References

Genesis 18:13
And God said vnto Abraham: wherfore dyd Sara laugh, saying, shall I of a suertie beare a chylde, which am olde?

Genesis 18:14
Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne.

Genesis 18:32
And he sayde: O let not my Lorde be angry, and I wyll speake yet but this once: What if ten shalbe found there? He aunswered, I wil not destroy [them] for tennes sake.

Isaiah 1:9
Except the Lorde of hoastes had left vs a small remnaunt, we shoulde haue ben as Sodoma, & lyke vnto Gomorra.

Jeremiah 5:1
Loke through Hierusalem, beholde and see, seeke through her streetes also within, yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght, or seketh for the trueth, and I shall spare that citie, saith the Lorde.

Acts 27:24
Saying: Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath geuen thee all them that sayle with thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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