Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
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Bible References
Slew seventy
2 Kings 10:9
And in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the folk, "Ye be righteous: for see, I conspired against my master and slew him: But who slew these?
2 Kings 11:1
And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and slew all the seed of the king.
Judges 9:5
And they went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew all his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, even seventy persons upon one stone. Notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.
1 Kings 21:21
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will make clean riddance of thee, and will destroy unto Ahab all that pisseth against the wall, and if ought be prisoned or forsaken in Israel:
2 Chronicles 21:4
And when Jehoram was up upon the kingdom of his father and settled, he slew all his other brethren with the sword, and divers of the lords of Israel thereto.
Matthew 14:8
And she, being informed of her mother before, said, "Give me here John Baptist's head in a platter."
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Proverbs 29:12
If a prince delight in lies, all his servants are ungodly.