Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,

Bible References

Seventy sons

Judges 8:30
And Gideon had seventy sons, begotten of his body. For he had many wives.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities which are called Havoth-jair to this day in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14
And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass colts. And he judged Israel eight years.

In samaria

2 Kings 5:3
And she said to her mistress, I wish my lord were with the prophet in Samaria! For he would recover him from his leprosy.
1 Kings 13:32
for the saying which he cried by the Word of Jehovah against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
1 Kings 16:28
And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 22:9
And he looked for Ahaziah. And they caught him (for he was hidden in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. And when they had killed him, they buried him because they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat who looked to Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power still to keep the kingdom.

The rulers

Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
1 Kings 21:8
And she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles in his city, dwelling with Naboth.