2 Kings 10:6 meaning and explanation
Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
2 Kings 10:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Jehu, newly anointed king of Israel, is pressing his claim by wiping out the dynasty of Ahab, as Elijah had foretold. The seventy sons were likely not infants but a royal line under the care of Samaria's leading men, who had already surrendered to Jehu in verse 5.
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