BRAGADAYJAH 1088
Jehu slew all of Ahab’s Seventy Sons.
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent
to Samaria to the rulers, the elders and those who cared for Ahab’s children, instructing
them that since they have the children with them, and horses and chariots also,
and living in a fenced city protected by armour, that they should select the
best and most likely one of the sons and set him upon his father's throne. But when they received the letters they were
all very much afraid, knowing he was the one who had slaughtered the two kings.
So they wrote back to Jehu telling him that they were his servants, and would
do whatever he asked them to do; but that they would not make anyone king, and
that he should do whatever seemed best in his sight. So the king wrote back to
them and told them that since they were willing to obey him, they should take
the heads of the king’s sons, all seventy of them, to him by the next day. And
so when the letter came to them they took off the heads of the king’s seventy
sons and put them in baskets and sent them to Jezreel. And when they told the
king that the heads of the seventy sons of Ahab had arrived, he ordered them to
be left until morning; and in the morning he addressed the people and told them
that he had conspired against his master and slew him, but asked “who slew all
of these? So now know’ that nothing spoken by the word of the Lord concerning
the house of Ahab; for the Lord has done that which He spoke by His servant
Elisha.” So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel; and
all his great men, and his kinfolks and his priests; and left not one
remaining.
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