2 Kings 10:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.

Cross References

Luke 9:50

And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not; for he that is not against you, is for you.

Matthew 12:30

He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

Job 21:19

God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

2 Kings 9:32

And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.

Deuteronomy 5:9

Thou shalt not adore them: and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me:

Numbers 25:4

Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

2 Kings 10:5

Therefore the overseers of the house, and the rulers of the city, and the ancients, and the tutors sent to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us we will do; neither will we make us a king. Do thou all that pleaseth thee.

2 Kings 10:7

And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.

2 Kings 10:9

And when it was light, he went out, and standing said to all the people: You are just. If I conspired against my master, and slew him, who hath slain all these?