Luke 14:31 - English Standard Version 2016

Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

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

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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 20:11

And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”

Job 41:8

Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

Proverbs 25:8

do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Luke 14:30

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

Luke 14:32

And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.