2 Kings 9:25-26
25Jehu said to Bidkar ahis aide, “Take him up and throw him bon the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how cthe Lord made this dpronouncement against him: 26‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”2 Kings 9:33-37
33He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. 34Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, efor she is a king’s daughter.” 35But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: f‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37and the corpse of Jezebel shall be gas dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”2 Kings 10:1-7
Jehu Slaughters Ahab’s Descendants
1Now Ahab had seventy sons in hSamaria. 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 jthe guardians of the sons ▼▼Hebrew lacks of the sons
of Ahab, saying, 2“Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 3select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne and fight for your master’s house.” 4But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?” 5So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, l“We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.” 6Then 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, mwho were bringing them up. 7And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons nand slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. 2 Kings 10:11
11So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
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