2 Kings 10:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 17:14-15 : 14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you; 15 Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.
  • 1 Sam 10:24 : 24 And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see the man of the Lord's selection, how there is no other like him among all the people? And all the people with loud cries said, Long life to the king!
  • 1 Sam 11:15 : 15 So all the people went to Gilgal; and there in Gilgal they made Saul king before the Lord; and peace-offerings were offered before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel were glad with great joy.
  • 2 Sam 2:8-9 : 8 Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim, 9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 2:12-17 : 12 And Abner, the son of Ner, with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. 13 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool. 14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so. 15 So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David. 16 And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon. 17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.
  • 1 Kgs 1:24-25 : 24 And Nathan said, O my lord king, have you said, Adonijah is to be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? 25 Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!
  • 1 Kgs 12:20-21 : 20 Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah. 21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.
  • John 18:36 : 36 Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 10:2
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    2 Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:35
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    35 Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 20:24
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    24 This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places;

  • 2 Sam 3:10
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    10 And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!

  • 2 Sam 17:10-11
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    10 Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

    11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

  • 2 Kgs 10:4-5
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    4 But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place?

    5 So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.

  • 2 Sam 19:7
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    7 So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
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    15 And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

  • 1 Chr 17:10-11
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    10 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

    11 And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
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    27 Has this thing been done by my lord the king, without giving word to your servants who was to be placed on my lord the king's seat after him?

  • Prov 25:7
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    7 For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

  • Jer 22:4
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    4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people

  • 2 Sam 7:12
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    12 And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
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    11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

    12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

  • 2 Kgs 11:8
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    8 Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
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    16 For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

  • 1 Chr 22:11
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    11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.

  • 1 Sam 25:30
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    30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

  • 2 Sam 19:27
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    27 He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.

  • 1 Sam 29:10
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    10 So get up early in the morning, with the servants of your lord who are with you, and go to the place I have given you, and have no evil design in your heart, for you are good in my eyes; but when there is light enough in the morning, go away.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • 2 Sam 2:7
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    7 Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

  • 2 Sam 18:4
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    4 And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Kgs 2:6
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    6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

  • 1 Sam 12:13
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    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
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    10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

  • 1 Kgs 1:13
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    13 Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

  • 1 Chr 19:13
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    13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

  • 2 Chr 29:11
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    11 My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

  • Ps 45:3
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    3 Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

  • 2 Kgs 9:2
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    2 And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

  • 1 Chr 19:10
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    10 Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took all the best men of Israel, and put them in line against the Aramaeans;

  • 1 Chr 28:5
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    5 And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
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    39 And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

  • 2 Chr 23:3
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    3 And all the people made an agreement with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Truly, the king's son will be king, as the Lord has said about the sons of David.

  • Deut 17:15
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    15 Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
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    10 Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

  • 2 Sam 10:12
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    12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.