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2 Kings 10:6

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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

Then he wrote {H3789} a letter {H5612} the second time {H8145} to them, saying {H559}, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken {H8085} unto my voice {H6963}, take {H3947} ye the heads {H7218} of the men {H582} your master's {H113} sons {H1121}, and come {H935} to me to Jezreel {H3157} by to morrow {H4279} this time {H6256}. Now the king's {H4428} sons {H1121}, being seventy {H7657} persons {H376}, were with the great men {H1419} of the city {H5892}, which brought them up {H1431}.

He wrote a second letter to them, which said, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey my orders, then bring the heads of your master's sons to me in Yizre'el by this time tomorrow." Now the seventy sons of the king were with the prominent men who had raised them.

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

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Cross-References

  • Job 21:19 (2 votes)

    God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].

  • Luke 9:50 (2 votes)

    And Jesus said unto him, Forbid [him] not: for he that is not against us is for us.

  • Deuteronomy 5:9 (2 votes)

    Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

  • Numbers 25:4 (2 votes)

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

  • Matthew 12:30 (2 votes)

    He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

  • 2 Kings 9:32 (2 votes)

    And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs.

  • Isaiah 14:21 (2 votes)

    Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.