2Ki 10:6-7 | ESV | STEP | Then he wrote to them a second letter , saying , If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me , take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time . Now the king’s sons , seventy persons , were with the great men of the city , who were bringing them up .

a[See ver. 1 above]

2 Kings 10:6-7

6 Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, ^awho were bringing them up. 7 And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons ^band slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.