Luke 14:31

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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]?

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.