2 Kings 10:6 - Modern English Version

⁶ Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying, “If you belong to me and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” Now the king’s sons, seventy men, were with the great men of the city who brought them up.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Then [Jehu] wrote a second letter to them, saying, If you are with me and will obey me, take the heads of your master [Joram's] sons and come to me at Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the [dead] king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

Common English Bible

⁶ Jehu wrote them a second letter: “If you are loyal to me and ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and bring them to me at Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” Now the king’s seventy sons were with the city leaders who were raising them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Then he again wrote letters to them a second time, saying: "If you are mine, and if you obey me, take the heads of the sons of your lord, and come to me at Jezreel at this same hour tomorrow." Now the sons of the king, being seventy men, were being raised with the nobles of the city.

2 Kings 10:6 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 10:5

So he who was over the house, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and everything you say to us we will do. We will not appoint a man king. Do what is good in your eyes.”

2 Kings 10:7

When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons, slaughtered all seventy, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him in Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:9

When morning came, he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck all these?

2 Kings 9:32

And he lifted up his face toward the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

Job 21:19

God stores up their iniquity for their children; let Him reward the people themselves, and they will know it.

Numbers 25:4

The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them before the Lord in the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord turn from Israel.”

Matthew 12:30

“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

Luke 9:50

Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against you is for you.”

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,