2 Kings 10:24 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁴ Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and he warned them, ‘Whoever allows any of the men I am placing in your hands to escape will forfeit his life for theirs.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men outside and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he who lets him go shall forfeit his own life for his life.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Then they went in to offer sacrifices and entirely burned offerings. But Jehu had stationed eighty soldiers outside and told them, “I’m handing these people over to you. Whoever lets even one of them escape will pay for it with his life.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Then they entered, so that they might offer victims and holocausts. But Jehu had prepared for himself eighty men outside. And he had said to them, "If anyone escapes from among these men, whom I have led into your hands, your life will take the place of his life."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. But Jehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him go shall answer life for life.

2 Kings 10:24 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 18:40

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.

2 Kings 10:23

Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, ‘Look carefully to see that there are no servants of the Lord here among you #– #only servants of Baal.’