Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying:

If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.

Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying:

If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, bring me the heads of your master’s sons[a] at this time tomorrow at Jezreel.

All seventy of the king’s sons were being cared for by the city’s prominent men.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 Lit heads of the men of the sons of your master