Ahab’s Family Killed

10 Now there were in Samaria^(A) seventy sons^(B) of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,^[a](C) to the elders and to the guardians^(D) of Ahab’s children. He said,

³² For the message he declared by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places^(A) in the towns of Samaria^(B) will certainly come true.”^(C)

³⁰ He had seventy sons^(A) of his own, for he had many wives.

⁹ He then went in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding^(A) in Samaria. He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought^(B) the Lord with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful enough to retain the kingdom.

³ She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet^(A) who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

⁸ So she wrote letters^(A) in Ahab’s name, placed his seal^(B) on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him. ⁹ In those letters she wrote:

¹¹ So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast^(E) and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people. ¹³ Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.^{(F) 14} Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”

²⁸ Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria.^(A) And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.

²⁴ He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents^[a] of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria,^(A) after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.

¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty grandsons,^(A) who rode on seventy donkeys.^(B) He led Israel eight years.