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Young's Literal Translation

Mark 3:24

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demons;   Jesus, the Christ;   Satan;   Strife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Jesus Christ;   Magic;   Suffering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Luke, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Parables;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Demon, Demoniacal Possession, Demoniacs;   Discourse;   Fig-Tree ;   Holy Spirit (2);   Hypocrisy;   Logia;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Ministry;   Miracles (2);   Proverbs ;   Unity (2);   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forgiveness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If a kingdom
King James Version (1611)
And if a kingdome be diuided against it selfe, that kingdome cannot stand.
King James Version
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
English Standard Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
New American Standard Bible
"And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
New Century Version
A kingdom that is divided cannot continue,
Amplified Bible
"If a kingdom is divided [split into factions and rebelling] against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Berean Standard Bible
If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.
Contemporary English Version
A nation whose people fight each other won't last very long.
Complete Jewish Bible
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't survive;
Darby Translation
And if a kingdom has become divided against itself, that kingdom cannot subsist.
Easy-to-Read Version
A kingdom that fights against itself will not survive.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For if a kingdome bee deuided against it selfe, that kingdome can not stand.
George Lamsa Translation
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Good News Translation
If a country divides itself into groups which fight each other, that country will fall apart.
Lexham English Bible
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand.
Literal Translation
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
American Standard Version
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Bible in Basic English
If there is division in a kingdom, that kingdom will come to destruction;
Hebrew Names Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
International Standard Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Etheridge Translation
For if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot stand;
Murdock Translation
For if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf a realme be deuided agaynst it selfe, that realme can not endure.
English Revised Version
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
World English Bible
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Weymouth's New Testament
For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if a rewme be departid ayens it silf, thilke rewme may not stonde.
Update Bible Version
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't stand.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
New English Translation
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.
New King James Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
New Living Translation
"A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse.
New Life Bible
A nation cannot last if it is divided against itself.
New Revised Standard
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Revised Standard Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For yf a realme be devided ageynste it silfe that realme cannot endure.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yf a realme be deuyded in it self, how can it endure?
Mace New Testament (1729)
if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last.
Simplified Cowboy Version
A cowboy divided against himself ropes no cattle.

Contextual Overview

22 and the scribes who [are] from Jerusalem having come down, said -- `He hath Beelzeboul,' and -- `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.' 23 And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary? 24 and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand; 25 and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand; 26 and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end. 27 `No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil. 28 `Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil, 29 but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness -- to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;' 30 because they said, `He hath an unclean spirit.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 9:23-57, Judges 12:1-6, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:6, 1 Kings 12:16-20, Isaiah 9:20, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 19:2, Isaiah 19:3, Ezekiel 37:22, Zechariah 11:14, John 17:21, 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, Ephesians 4:3-6

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,
Genesis 3:8
And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where [art] thou?'
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband [is] thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Genesis 3:17
And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Genesis 3:18
and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --
Exodus 25:2
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.
Numbers 22:23
and the ass seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his drawn sword in his hand, and the ass turneth aside out of the way, and goeth into a field, and Balaam smiteth the ass to turn it aside into the way.
Joshua 5:13
And it cometh to pass in Joshua's being by Jericho, that he lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, one standing over-against him, and his drawn sword in his hand, and Joshua goeth unto him, and saith to him, `Art thou for us or for our adversaries?'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a kingdom be divided against itself,.... Any of the kingdoms of this world, and the kingdom of "Satan":

that kingdom cannot stand: not long; its internal broils and divisions will, soon bring it to desolation; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the scribes ... - See the notes at Matthew 12:24-32. The occasion of their saying this was, that he had healed a man possessed with a devil. The scribes, who came from Jerusalem to watch his conduct, charged him with having made a compact or agreement with the prince of the devils.


 
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