Luke 14:31 - Tree of Life Version

³¹ “Or what king, going to make war against another king, won’t first sit down to consider whether he is able with ten thousand to confront the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

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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?

Luke 14:31 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 20:11

The king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him: ‘Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.”

Job 41:8

each so close to the next, that no air can pass between.

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are made by counsel, so wage war with guidance.

Proverbs 25:8

do not bring hastily to court, or what will you do afterward, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish!’

Luke 14:32

If not, while the other is still far away, he sends an ambassador and asks for peace.