2 Kings 10:6

New American Bible - revised edition

So Jehu wrote them a second letter: “If you are on my side and will obey me, bring along the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” (The seventy princes were in the care of prominent men of the city, who were rearing them.)

Cross References

Luke 9:50

Jesus said to him, “Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you.” Departure for Jerusalem; Samaritan Inhospitality.

Matthew 12:30

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Job 21:19

“God is storing up the man’s misery for his children”?— let him requite the man himself so that he knows it!

2 Kings 9:32

Jehu looked up to the window and shouted, “Who is on my side? Who?” At this, two or three eunuchs looked down toward him.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Numbers 25:4

The Lord said to Moses: Gather all the leaders of the people, and publicly execute them before the Lord, that the blazing wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel.

2 Kings 10:5

So the master of the palace and the chief of the city, along with the elders and the guardians, sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do everything you tell us. We will proclaim no one king; do whatever you think best.”

2 Kings 10:7

When the letter arrived, they took the princes and slew all seventy of them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:9

In the morning he came outside, stood there, and said to all the people: “You are guiltless, for it was I who conspired against my lord and slew him. But who killed all these?