Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

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Bible References

If ye be mine

2 Kings 9:32
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked out to him.
Matthew 12:30
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
Luke 9:50
But Jesus said to him, Do not forbid, for he who is not against us is for us.

Take ye

Numbers 25:4
And LORD said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of LORD may turn away from Israel.
1 Kings 21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, [and] who dwelt with Naboth.

Your master's sons

Deuteronomy 5:9
Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Joshua 7:24
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he h
Job 21:19
[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
Revelation 2:20
Nevertheless, I have against thee that thou tolerate thy woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my bondmen to fornicate, and to eat idol sacrifices.

General references

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.