Luke 14:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³¹ Or what king, planning to engage another king in war, will not first sit down and evaluate whether he will be able, with ten thousand [soldiers], to defeat someone who attacks him with twenty thousand [soldiers]?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Or what king, going out to engage in conflict with another king, will not first sit down and consider and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand [men] to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Common English Bible

³¹ Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down to consider whether his ten thousand soldiers could go up against the twenty thousand coming against him?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Or, what king, advancing to engage in war against another king, would not first sit down and consider whether he may be able, with ten thousand, to meet one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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?

Luke 14:31 Cross References

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man began to build [a tower] but was not able to finish it.’

Luke 14:32

Or maybe, while the enemy is still a long way off, he will send representatives to ask for peace terms.