◄ 2 Kings 10:4 ►
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Good News Translation
The rulers of Samaria were terrified. "How can we oppose Jehu," they said, "when neither King Joram nor King Ahaziah could?"

New Revised Standard Version
But they were utterly terrified and said, “Look, two kings could not withstand him; how then can we stand?”

Contemporary English Version
The officials and leaders read the letters and were very frightened. They said to each other, "Jehu has already killed King Joram and King Ahaziah! We have to do what he says."

New American Bible
They were overcome with fright and said, “If the two kings could not withstand him, how can we?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?

behold

2 Kings 9:24,27 But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he fell in his chariot. . . .

how then shall

Isaiah 27:4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Jeremiah 49:19 Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?

Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him.

Luke 14:31 Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

Context
Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Family
…3Choose 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. 4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?5Therefore they that were over the king's house, and the rulers of the city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us we will do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth thee.…
Cross References
2 Kings 9:24
But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he fell in his chariot.

2 Kings 9:27
But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the garden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.

2 Kings 10:3
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.

2 Kings 10:3
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