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2 Kings 10:5
“He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 10
Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him! How then shall we stand?
He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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