Jehu Kills the House of Ahab

10 Since Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria,(A) Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel,(B) to the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab’s sons,[a] saying:

When this letter(C) arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots, horses, a fortified city, and weaponry, select the most qualified[b] of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 10:1 LXX; MT reads of Ahab
  2. 2 Kings 10:3 Lit the good and the upright

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