2Ki 10:1, 7 | ESV | STEP | Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria . So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria , to the rulers of the city , to the elders , and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab , saying ,

2 Kings 10:1

Jehu Slaughters Ahab’s Descendants

1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in ^aSamaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew rulers of Jezreel} to the elders, and to ^cthe guardians of the sons ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks of the sons} of Ahab, saying,

2 Kings 10:7

7 And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons ^eand slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.