2nd Kings 10:6-12

⁶Forsooth he wrote again to them letters the second time, and said, If ye be mine, and obey to me, take ye off the heads of the sons of your lord, and come ye to me in this same hour tomorrow into Jezreel. And the sons of the king, seventy men, were nursed or nourished at or by the best men of the city.

⁷And when the letters had come to them, they took the sons of the king, and killed those seventy men, and they putted or put the heads of them in coffins; and sent those to Jehu into Jezreel.

⁸And a messenger came to him, and showed to him, and said, They have brought the heads of the sons of the king. Which answered, Put ye those heads into twain or two heaps, beside the entering of the gate, till the morrowtide.

⁹And when it was clear day, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be just or rightwise men; if I conspired against my lord, and killed him, who killed all these?

¹⁰Therefore see ye now, that none of the words of the Lord hath fallen down into the earth, which the Lord spake on the house of Ahab; and the Lord hath done that, that he spake in the hand of his servant, Elijah.

¹¹Therefore Jehu smote all that were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all the best men of him, and his known men, and his priests, till no relics or remnants of him were left.

¹²And he rose, and came into Samaria; and when he had come to the chamber of the shepherds in the way,