King James Version
2 Kings 10:3 in the King James Version says “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'...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
2 Kings 10:3 · KJV
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying, them: Heb. nourishers
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
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.
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
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“Look even out”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“the best”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“him on his father's”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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