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Then fight for your master&#8217s house.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/2_kings/10.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />select the best qualified of your master’s sons to be your king, and prepare to fight for Ahab’s dynasty.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_kings/10.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set <i>him</i> on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_kings/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />choose the best qualified of your master’s sons, set <i>him</i> on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_kings/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />select the best and most capable of your master’s sons and seat <i>him</i> on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />select the best and fittest of your master&#8217s sons, and set him on his father&#8217s throne, and fight for your master&#8217s house.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_kings/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, and set <i>him</i> on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_kings/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />look for the best and fittest of your master’s sons, and set <i>him</i> on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_kings/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />select the best and most capable of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s [royal] house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_kings/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />select the most qualified of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />select the most qualified of your master&#8217s sons, set him on his father&#8217s throne, and fight for your master&#8217s house. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_kings/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />choose the best person for the job and make him the next king. Then be prepared to defend Ahab's family. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_kings/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />choose the best and most honest of your master's heirs, and put him on Ahab's throne. Fight for your master's family."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_kings/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />you are to choose the best qualified of the king's descendants, make him king, and fight to defend him." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_kings/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />select the best and most qualified of your master's sons, set him in place on his father's throne, and fight for your master's dynasty!"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_kings/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />pick the best and most capable of your master's sons, place him on his father's throne, and defend your master's dynasty." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_kings/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Look 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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_kings/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_kings/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />that you have seen the best and the most upright of the sons of your lord, and have set [him] on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your lord.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and ye have seen the best and the uprightest of the sons of your lord, and have set him on the throne of his father, and fight ye for the house of your lord.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_kings/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And see the good and the straight of your lord's sons, and set upon the throne of his father, and war for the house of your lord.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_kings/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />decide which is the best and the fittest of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />select the son of your master who is the best qualified, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Whichever seems to you good and best of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_kings/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And whomever you see who is good and beautiful of the sons of your Master, seat on the throne of his father and fight for the household of your Master.”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_kings/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_kings/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />do ye accordingly look out the best and fittest among your master's sons, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your master.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/10-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=3348" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/10.htm">Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Family</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>“When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weaponry, <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: ū·rə·’î·ṯem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">select</a> <a href="/hebrew/2896.htm" title="2896: haṭ·ṭō·wḇ (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Pleasant, agreeable, good.">the best</a> <a href="/hebrew/3477.htm" title="3477: wə·hay·yā·šār (Conj-w, Art:: Adj-ms) -- Straight, right. From yashar; straight.">and most worthy</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: mib·bə·nê (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">son</a> <a href="/hebrew/113.htm" title="113: ’ă·ḏō·nê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Lord. Or adon; from an unused root; sovereign, i.e. Controller.">of your master,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: wə·śam·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">set him</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ā·ḇîw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">his father’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/3678.htm" title="3678: kis·sê (N-msc) -- Seat of honor, throne. Or kicceh; from kacah; properly, covered, i.e. A throne.">throne,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3898.htm" title="3898: wə·hil·lā·ḥă·mū (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-Imp-mp) -- To feed on, to consume, to battle. A primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle.">and fight</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/113.htm" title="113: ’ă·ḏō·nê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Lord. Or adon; from an unused root; sovereign, i.e. Controller.">your master’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">house.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">4</span>But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/1-5.htm">1 Kings 1:5-10</a></span><br />At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him. / (His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.) / So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/2-15.htm">1 Kings 2:15</a></span><br />“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/3-10.htm">2 Samuel 3:10</a></span><br />to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/7-12.htm">2 Samuel 7:12-16</a></span><br />And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. / He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. / I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-11.htm">1 Kings 11:11-13</a></span><br />Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. / Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. / Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/21-21.htm">1 Kings 21:21-24</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free. / I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’ / And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’ ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-6.htm">2 Kings 9:6-10</a></span><br />So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel. / And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel. / The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/11-1.htm">2 Kings 11:1-3</a></span><br />When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs. / But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed. / And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/22-10.htm">2 Chronicles 22:10-12</a></span><br />When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah. / But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him. / And Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-6.htm">Isaiah 7:6-7</a></span><br />‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’ / But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/22-30.htm">Jeremiah 22:30</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/1-11.htm">Matthew 1:11</a></span><br />and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/2-2.htm">Matthew 2:2-6</a></span><br />asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.” / When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. / And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-5.htm">Matthew 21:5</a></span><br />“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-32.htm">Luke 1:32-33</a></span><br />He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, / and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Look even out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.</p><p class="hdg">Look even</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/17-14.htm">Deuteronomy 17:14,15</a></b></br> When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that <i>are</i> about me; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/10-24.htm">1 Samuel 10:24</a></b></br> And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that <i>there is</i> none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/11-15.htm">1 Samuel 11:15</a></b></br> And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.</p><p class="hdg">fight for</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/2-12.htm">2 Samuel 2:12-17</a></b></br> And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/12-21.htm">1 Kings 12:21</a></b></br> And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/john/18-36.htm">John 18:36</a></b></br> Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/5-16.htm">Best</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-25.htm">Choose</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-18.htm">Father's</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-26.htm">Fight</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-2.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/exodus/23-4.htm">Meetest</a> <a href="/joshua/18-4.htm">Select</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-19.htm">Throne</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-23.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-26.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_chronicles/12-32.htm">Best</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-10.htm">Choose</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-30.htm">Father's</a> <a href="/2_kings/16-5.htm">Fight</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-5.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-15.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/psalms/21-3.htm">Meetest</a> <a href="/psalms/75-2.htm">Select</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-30.htm">Throne</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-9.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-25.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm">Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab's sons to be beheaded</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-12.htm">At the shearing house he slays forty-two of Ahaziah's brothers</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-15.htm">He takes Jehonadab into his company</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-18.htm">By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-29.htm">Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins</a></span><br><span class="reftext">32. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-32.htm">Hazael oppresses Israel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">34. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-34.htm">Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The phrase suggests a choice based on merit and worthiness, which reflects the biblical principle that leadership should be entrusted to those who are capable and righteous. This echoes the selection of David over his brothers (<a href="/1_samuel/16-7.htm">1 Samuel 16:7</a>), where God emphasizes the importance of the heart over outward appearance. The term "master" refers to the previous king, Ahab, whose lineage was under threat due to Jehu's uprising. This reflects the dynastic struggles common in the ancient Near East, where royal succession was often contested.<p><b>set him on his father’s throne</b><br>The throne symbolizes authority and the continuation of a dynasty. In the biblical narrative, the throne of Israel is not just a seat of power but a representation of God's covenant with David (<a href="/2_samuel/7-16.htm">2 Samuel 7:16</a>). The act of setting someone on the throne implies legitimacy and divine sanction. This phrase also highlights the political instability during the time of Jehu, as he sought to eliminate the house of Ahab and establish his own rule. The throne of Israel was located in Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom, which was a significant city both politically and religiously.<p><b>and fight for your master’s house</b><br>This call to arms indicates the expectation of loyalty to the royal house, a common theme in monarchic societies where allegiance to the king was paramount. The "house" refers to the dynasty or family line, in this case, the house of Ahab. The historical context involves Jehu's rebellion against Ahab's descendants, fulfilling the prophecy given to Elijah (<a href="/1_kings/21-21.htm">1 Kings 21:21-22</a>). The concept of fighting for one's master is also seen in the loyalty of David's mighty men (<a href="/2_samuel/23-8.htm">2 Samuel 23:8-39</a>), who defended his kingdom. This phrase underscores the conflict between Jehu and the remnants of Ahab's lineage, a struggle for power and divine justice.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jehu.htm">Jehu</a></b><br>The newly anointed king of Israel, tasked with eradicating the house of Ahab as part of God's judgment.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/a/ahab's_house.htm">Ahab's House</a></b><br>The royal family of the former king, Ahab, known for their idolatry and wickedness.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a></b><br>The capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, where the events unfold.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_elders_and_guardians.htm">The Elders and Guardians</a></b><br>Leaders and caretakers of Ahab's sons, responsible for their upbringing and protection.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_sons_of_ahab.htm">The Sons of Ahab</a></b><br>Potential heirs to the throne, representing the continuation of Ahab's dynasty.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_justice_and_judgment.htm">Divine Justice and Judgment</a></b><br>God's justice is sure and will be executed in His timing. The destruction of Ahab's house serves as a reminder of the consequences of persistent sin and rebellion against God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/leadership_and_responsibility.htm">Leadership and Responsibility</a></b><br>Leaders are accountable for their actions and the legacy they leave. The elders and guardians had a choice to make regarding their allegiance and the future of Israel.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/courage_in_obedience.htm">Courage in Obedience</a></b><br>Jehu's actions required boldness and faithfulness to God's command. Believers are called to act courageously in obedience to God's will, even when it is difficult.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a></b><br>Ahab's house faced destruction due to their idolatry and turning away from God. This serves as a warning against the dangers of idolatry in our own lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>The unfolding events demonstrate God's sovereign control over history and His ability to fulfill His promises and prophecies.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_david_help_saul's_kin_despite_past.htm">In 2 Samuel 9:3, how do we reconcile David's swift willingness to help Saul's descendant with the longstanding hostilities described elsewhere in 1 and 2 Samuel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_1_kings_5_5_dates.htm">How can one reconcile the temple-building timeline in 1 Kings 5:5 with different dates given in other biblical passages?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/jeremiah_7_30-31__why_no_historical_proof.htm">Jeremiah 7:30-31: How does the practice of child sacrifice in this passage reconcile with the lack of supporting historical records outside the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_josiah's_timeline.htm">How do we reconcile the timeline of Josiah's reign in 2 Kings 22:1 with other historical and biblical sources referencing his lineage and age?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) <span class= "bld">The best and meetest</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e.</span>, the one you think best qualified in every sense (not merely in the <span class= "ital">moral</span> sense).<p><span class= "bld">Your master's sons.</span>--"Your master" need not mean Jehoram. The story relates to <span class= "ital">Ahab</span> (<a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm" title="And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,">2Kings 10:1</a>).<p><span class= "bld">His father's throne</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e.</span>, <span class= "ital">Ahab's</span> throne. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/17-3.htm" title="And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not to Baalim;">2Chronicles 17:3</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/21-12.htm" title="And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus said the LORD God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,">2Chronicles 21:12</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/29-2.htm" title="And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.">2Chronicles 29:2</a>, where David is called the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Hezekiah in turn.)<p><span class= "bld">Fight for your master's house.</span>--Jehu thus declares his own warlike intentions, leaving the nobles, whom his prompt and decisive action had taken by surprise, no choice between improvised resistance and instant submission. Knowing Jehu's character as a soldier, they chose the latter. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Look even out the belt and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne.</span> "Choose," <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, "among the sons of Joram the strongest, the boldest, and the ablest, and make him king in his father's zoom; take him for your leader against me; do not hesitate and beat about the bush; but at once make up your minds, and let me know what I have to expect." <span class="cmt_word">And fight for your master's house.</span> There had been a civil war before the dynasty of Omri succeeded in settling itself on the throne (<a href="/1_kings/16-21.htm">1 Kings 16:21, 22</a>). Jehu believes, or affects to believe, that there will now be another. He does not deprecate it, but invites it. Probably he felt tolerably confident that the garrison of Samaria, even if called upon by the municipality, would not venture to take up arms against the army of Ramoth-Gilead, which had declared itself in his favor. Still, supposing that it did, he was not fearful of the result. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_kings/10-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">select</span><br /><span class="heb">וּרְאִיתֶ֞ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·rə·’î·ṯem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the best</span><br /><span class="heb">הַטּ֤וֹב</span> <span class="translit">(haṭ·ṭō·wḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2896.htm">Strong's 2896: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pleasant, agreeable, good</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and most worthy</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַיָּשָׁר֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hay·yā·šār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3477.htm">Strong's 3477: </a> </span><span class="str2">Straight, right</span><br /><br /><span class="word">son</span><br /><span class="heb">מִבְּנֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(mib·bə·nê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your master,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·nê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_113.htm">Strong's 113: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sovereign, controller</span><br /><br /><span class="word">set</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשַׂמְתֶּ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·śam·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> </span><span class="str2">Put -- to put, place, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">him on</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his father’s</span><br /><span class="heb">אָבִ֑יו</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇîw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> </span><span class="str2">Father</span><br /><br /><span class="word">throne,</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּסֵּ֣א</span> <span class="translit">(kis·sê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3678.htm">Strong's 3678: </a> </span><span class="str2">Seat of honor, throne</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and fight</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהִֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hil·lā·ḥă·mū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3898.htm">Strong's 3898: </a> </span><span class="str2">To feed on, to consume, to battle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your master’s</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנֵיכֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·nê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_113.htm">Strong's 113: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sovereign, controller</span><br /><br /><span class="word">house.”</span><br /><span class="heb">בֵּ֥ית</span> <span class="translit">(bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_kings/10-3.htm">2 Kings 10:3 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_kings/10-3.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 10:3 Look you out the best and meet (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/10-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 10:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/10-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 10:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>