Jehu responded with a second letter: “If you are on my side and are going to obey me, bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the seventy sons of the king were being cared for by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised since childhood.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

In the East, the heads of rivals, pretenders, and other hostile persons are commonly struck off and brought to the chief ruler as proof that his en…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

The second time. —Some manuscripts, the Septuagint, and the Arabic read “a second letter.”

Take ye the heads.

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them
Having gained his point by the former:

saying, if …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

In the most terrible events, though accompanied by the basest crimes of man, the truth and justice of God should be recognized; and he never has co…

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