Luke 14:31

Legacy Standard Bible

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Cross References

1 Kings 20:11

Then the king of Israel answered and said, “Speak to him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.’ ”

Job 41:8

“Place your hand on it; Remember the battle; you will not do that again!

Proverbs 20:18

Thoughts are established by counsel, So make war by guidance.

Proverbs 25:8

¶Do not go out hastily to plead your case; Lest, what will you do in the end, When your neighbor humiliates you?

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Luke 14:32

Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.