2 Kings 10:1

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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,

Seventy sons

Judges 8:30

Judges 10:4

Judges 12:14

In samaria

The rulers

Deuteronomy 16:18

1 Kings 21:8

Bible References

Seventy sons

Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

In samaria

And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.

For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

The rulers

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.