New Revised Standard Version
select the son of your master who is the best qualified, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

Contemporary English Version
choose the best person for the job and make him the next king. Then be prepared to defend Ahab's family.

New American Bible
decide which is the best and the fittest of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.

Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.

Look even

Deuteronomy 17:14,15 When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about: . . .

1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.

1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

2 Samuel 2:8,9 But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him about through the camp, . . .

1 Kings 1:24,25 Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne? . . .

1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Juda only.

fight for

2 Samuel 2:12-17 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Isboseth the son of Saul, went out from the camp to Gabaon. . . .

1 Kings 12:21 And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand chosen men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.

John 18:36 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.