Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant feared the LORD: and the creditor hath come to take to him my two sons to be bond-men.

All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off {all males} from Ahab, both bond and free.

And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds with the captains and them of the guard, and took them into him into the house of the LORD, and made a bond with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.

For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.