Catholic Public Domain Version
"choose him who is better and who pleases you from among the sons of your lord, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your lord.” "
— 2 Kings 10:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“look ye 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. ”
“Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."”
“pick the best and most capable of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and defend your master’s dynasty.””
“Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.”
“Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.”
“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.”
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And so Jehu wrote letters, and he sent to Samaria, to the nobles of the city, and to those greater by birth, and to those who had raised Ahab’s sons, saying:
“Immediately when you receive these letters, you who have your lord’s sons, and chariots, and horses, and reinforced cities, and weapons,
choose him who is better and who pleases you from among the sons of your lord, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your lord.”
But they were vehemently afraid, and they said: “Behold, two kings were not able to stand before him. So how will we be able to withstand him?”
Therefore, those who were in charge of the house, and the prefects of the city, and those greater by birth, and those who raised the sons, sent to Jehu, saying: “We are your servants. Whatever you will order, we will do. But we will not appoint a king for ourselves. Do whatever pleases you.”
Then he again wrote letters to them a second time, saying: “If you are mine, and if you obey me, take the heads of the sons of your lord, and come to me at Jezreel at this same hour tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, being seventy men, were being raised with the nobles of the city.