2 Kings 7:14

Geneva Bible

So they tooke two charets of horses, and the King sent after the hoste of the Aramites, saying, Goe and see.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The messengers took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”

Hebrew Names Version
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Aram, saying, Go and see.

King James Version
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

English Standard Version
So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."

New Century Version
So the men took two chariots with horses. The king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and see what has happened."

New English Translation
So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them, "Go and find out what's going on."

Amplified Bible
So they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and see."

New American Standard Bible
Therefore they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of the Arameans, saying, "Go and see."

Legacy Standard Bible
They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, "Go and see."

Contemporary English Version
They found two chariots, and the king commanded the men to find out what had happened to the Syrian troops.

Complete Jewish Bible
So they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the army of Aram, saying, "Go, and see."

Darby Translation
And they took two chariots with their horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the men took two chariots with horses. The king sent these men after the Aramean army. He told them, "Go and see what happened."

George Lamsa Translation
So two couples of horsemen mounted, and the king sent them after the army of Aram, saying, Go and see.

Good News Translation
They chose some men, and the king sent them in two chariots with instructions to go and find out what had happened to the Syrian army.

Lexham English Bible
So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, "Go, find out,"

Literal Translation
And they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the Syrian army, saying, Go and see.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The toke they two charettes with ye horses. And the kynge sent them vnto the tentes of the Syrians, and sayde: Go youre waye and se.

American Standard Version
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

Bible in Basic English
So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They toke therfore the horses of two charets, and the king sent after the hoast of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Arameans, saying: 'Go and see.'

King James Version (1611)
They tooke therefore two charet horses, and the king sent after the hoste of the Syrians, saying, Goe, and see.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So they took two horsemen; and the king of Israel sent after the king of Syria, saying, Go, and see.

English Revised Version
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and see."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei brouyten forth twei horsis; and the kyng sente in to the castels of men of Sirie, and seide, Go ye, and se.

Young's Literal Translation
And they take two chariot-horses, and the king sendeth after the camp of Aram, saying, `Go, and see.'

Update Bible Version
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

Webster's Bible Translation
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

World English Bible
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

New King James Version
Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see."

New Living Translation
So two chariots with horses were prepared, and the king sent scouts to see what had happened to the Aramean army.

New Life Bible
So they took two war-wagons with horses. And the king sent them after the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see."

New Revised Standard
So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and find out."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they took two chariots and horses, - and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.

Revised Standard Version
So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."

THE MESSAGE
They took two chariots with horses. The king sent them after the army of Aram with the orders, "Scout them out; find out what happened."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the army of the Arameans, saying, "Go and see."

Contextual Overview

¹² Then the King arose in the night, and saide vnto his seruants, I wil shew you now, what the Aramites haue done vnto vs. They know that we are affamished, therefore they are gone out of the campe to hide them selues in the fielde, saying, When they come out of the citie, we shall catch them aliue, and get into the citie. ¹³ And one of his seruants answered, and said, Let me take now fiue of the horses that remaine, and are left in the citie, (behold, they are euen as all the multitude of Israel that are left therein: beholde, I say, they are as the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed) & we wil send to see. ¹⁴ So they tooke two charets of horses, and the King sent after the hoste of the Aramites, saying, Goe and see. ¹⁵ And they went after them vnto Iorden, and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their hast: & the messengers returned, and told ye King. ¹⁶ Then the people went out and spoyled the campe of the Aramites: so a measure of fine floure was at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel according to the word of the Lorde. ¹⁷ And the King gaue the prince (on whose hande he leaned) the charge of the gate, and the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed, as the man of God had saide, which spake it, when the King came downe to him. ¹⁸ And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate of Samaria. ¹⁹ But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof. ²⁰ And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:17 - Take an horseman

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take to thee by seuens, the male & his female: but of vncleane beastes by couples, the male & his female.

Genesis 7:3
Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.

Genesis 7:8
Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,

Genesis 7:9
There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They took therefore two chariot horses,.... Not five, but two only, and those the best, that drew in the king's chariot perhaps, and so were better fed, and fitter for this expedition:

and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, go and see; whether they are fled or not.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Two chariot horses - Translate, “two horse-chariots.” They dispatched i. e. two war-chariots, with their proper complement of horses and men, to see whether the retreat was a reality or only a feint. The “horses” sent would be four or six, since chariots were drawn by either two or three horses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 7:14. They took - two chariot horses — They had at first intended to send five; probably they found on examination that only two were effective. But if they sent two chariots, each would have two horses, and probably a single horse for crossing the country.