2 Kings 10:6–11

⁶Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

⁷When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and ^aslaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

⁸When the messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

⁹Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are ¹innocent; behold, ^aI conspired against my master and killed him, but ^bwho ²killed all these?

¹⁰“Know then that ^athere shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done ^bwhat He spoke ¹through His servant Elijah.”

¹¹So Jehu ¹killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in ^aJezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.