2 Kings 18:24

Wycliffe Bible

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?

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:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
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?

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?

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 Forsothe the kyng of Assiriens sente Thercha and Rabsaces fro Lachis to kyng Ezechie, with strong hond to Jerusalem; and whanne thei hadden stied, thei camen to Jerusalem, and stoden bisidis the water cundijt of the hiyere cisterne, which is in the weie of the fullere, `ethir toukere. <sup>18</sup> And thei clepiden the kyng; sotheli Eliachym, sone of Elchie, the souereyn of the hows, and Sobna, scryueyn, and Joahe, chaunseler, the sone of Asaph, yeden out to hem. <sup>19</sup> And Rabsaces seide to hem, Speke ye to Ezechie, The grete kyng, the kyng of Assiriens, seith these thingis, What is this trist, in which thou enforsist? <sup>20</sup> In hap thou hast take counsel, that thou woldist make thee redi to batel. In whom tristist thou, that thou be hardi to rebelle? <sup>21</sup> Whethir thou hopist in a `staf of rehed and brokun, Egipt, on which, if a man lenith, it schal be brokun, and schal entre in to hys hond, and schal peerse it? So is Farao, kyng of Egipt, to alle men that tristen on hym. ²² That if thou seist to me, We han trist in `oure Lord God; whether this is not he, whos hiye thingis and auteris Ezechie took awei, and comaundide to Juda and to Jerusalem, Ye schulen worschipe bifor this auter in Jerusalem? <sup>23</sup> Now therfor passe ye to my lord, the kyng of Assiriens, and Y schal yyue to you twei thousynde of horsis, and se ye, whether ye moun haue rideris of `tho horsis? ²⁴ 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? ²⁵ Whether Y stiede with outen `Goddis wille to this place, that Y schulde distrie it? `The Lord seide to me, `Stie thou to this lond, and distrie thou it. ²⁶ Forsothe Eliachym, sone of Elchie, and Sobna, and Joahe, seiden to Rabsaces, We preien, that thou speke bi the langage of Sirie to vs, thi seruauntis; for we vndirstondun this langage; and that thou speke not to vs bi the langage of Juwis, while the puple herith, which is on the wal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
Forsothe the Lord seide to Abraham, Whi leiyeth Sare, thi wijf, seiynge, whether Y an eld womman schal bere child verili?

Genesis 18:14
whether ony thing is hard to God? Bi the biheeste Y schal turne ayen to thee in this same tyme, if Y lyue; and Sara schal haue a sone.

Genesis 18:32
Abraham seide, Lord, Y biseche, be thou not wrooth, if Y speke yit onys; what if ten be founden there? The Lord seide, Y schal not do a wey for ten.

Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of oostis hadde not left seed to vs, we hadden be as Sodom, and we hadden be lijk as Gomorre.

Jeremiah 5:1
Cumpasse ye the weies of Jerusalem, and loke, and biholde ye, and seke ye in the stretis therof, whether ye fynden a man doynge doom, and sekynge feith; and Y schal be merciful to hem.

Acts 27:24
it bihoueth thee to stonde bifore the emperour. And lo! God hath youun to thee alle that ben in the schip with thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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