The whole valley #– #the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east #– #will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.’
Adoni-bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Then the priest Jehoiada sent out the commanders of hundreds, those in charge of the army, saying, ‘Take her out between the ranks, and put anyone who follows her to death by the sword,’ for the priest had said, ‘Don’t put her to death in the Lord’s temple.’
‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Then Elijah ordered them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let even one of them escape.’ So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and slaughtered them there.