Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company.
2 Kings 18:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How then can you beat back one captain among the least of my master's servants, when your trust is put in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? American Standard Version (1901) How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Common English Bible How will you drive back even the least important official among my master’s servants when you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders? Catholic Public Domain Version So how can you resist one prince from the least of my lord's servants? Do you have faith in Egypt because of the chariots and horsemen? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? |
Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company.
Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will provide a handful for each of the people who follow me.”
See, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”
Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan but not mine; who make an alliance but against my will, adding sin to sin;
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
See, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: This is what you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Pharaoh’s army, which set out to help you, is going to return to its own land, to Egypt.
But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when ramps are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.
Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you were a staff of reed to the house of Israel;
it is you, O king! You have grown great and strong. Your greatness has increased and reaches to heaven, and your sovereignty to the ends of the earth.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.
Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You must never return that way again.’