2 Kings 10:8 - The Scriptures 1998

Then a messenger came and informed him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the sovereign’s sons.” And he said, “Make them two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When a messenger came and told him, They have brought the heads of the king's sons, he said, Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the city gate until morning.

American Standard Version (1901)

And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.

Common English Bible

A messenger came and told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He responded, “Pile them in two stacks at the entrance of the gate where they will stay until morning.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then a messenger arrived and reported to him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." And he responded, "Place them in two piles, beside the entrance of the gate, until morning."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the entering-in of the gate until the morning.

2 Kings 10:8 Cross References

1 Kings 21:14

And they sent to Izeḇ

2 Kings 10:7

And it came to be, when the letter came to them, that they took the sovereign’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy men, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Yizreʽ

2 Kings 10:9

And it came to be, in the morning, that he went out and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and slew him, but who smote all these?

Mark 6:28

and brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the girl. And the girl gave it to her mother.

Deuteronomy 21:23

“Let his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is accursed of Elohim – so that you do not defile the land which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.