2 Kings 10:7-8

10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. ¹  They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel. 10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu, ²  “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu ³  said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

2 Kings 18:9

18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched ⁴  up against Samaria ⁵  and besieged it.

¹ tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

⁴ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.