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CHAP. X.
AND Ahab had seventy sons a 1.1 in Samaria b 1.2: And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Sama∣ria, unto the rulers of Jezreel c 1.3, to the elders d 1.4, and to ‡ 1.5 them that brought up Ahabs children, say∣ing, * 1.6
2 Now assoon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your masters sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a •…•…enced city also, and armour:
3 Look even out the best and meetest of your masters sons, and set him on his fathers throne, and •…•…ight for your masters house f 1.7.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him g 1.8: how then should we stand?
5 And he that was over the house h 1.9, and he that was over the city i 1.10, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us k 1.11; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter l 1.12 the second time to them, saying▪ If ye be ‡ 1.13 mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men m 1.14, your masters sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time: (now the kings sons being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up)
7 And it came to pass when the letter came to them, that they took the kings sons, and slew se∣venty persons * 1.15, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
8 ¶ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the kings sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entring in of the gate n 1.16, until the morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people o 1.17, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but ‡ 1.18 who slew all these?
10 Know now, that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake p 1.19 concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake * 1.20 ‡ 1.21 by his servant Elijah q 1.22.
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men r 1.23, and his ‖ 1.24 kinsfolks, and his priests s 1.25, until he left him none remaining t 1.26.