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
He lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
Matthew 12:30
"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.
Luke 9:50
Jesus said to him, "Don't forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us."

Take ye

Numbers 25:4
Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh 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, who lived with Naboth.

Your master's sons

Deuteronomy 5:9
you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
Joshua 7:24
Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
Job 21:19
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

General references

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.