2 Kings 10:7 - Modern English Version

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ When the letter came to these men, they took the king's sons and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.

Common English Bible

⁷ So when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered all seventy of them. They placed their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And when the letters had arrived to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed the seventy men. And they placed their heads in baskets, and they sent these to him at Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:7 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession?” And you shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your own blood!”

1 Kings 21:21

‘Behold, I will bring disaster upon you and will take away your posterity and will cut off all your males, both free and slave, who are left in Israel,

2 Kings 10:6

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.

2 Kings 10:8

So the messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Then he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entry of the gate until morning.”

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 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the royal descendants.

2 Chronicles 21:4

Then Jehoram rose up over the kingdom of his father and he became strong. And he killed all his brothers with the sword and even some of the officials in Israel.