2 Kings 10:1-8
seventy sons <01121 07657> [seventy sons.]
Samaria .......... Samaria <08111> [in Samaria.]
officials <08269> [the rulers.]
guardians <0539> [them. Heb. nourishers.]
letter <05612> [as soon.]
pick <07200> [Look even.]
master's .......... defend ... master's <03898 0113> [fight for.]
two <08147> [Behold.]
stop .... can <05975> [how then shall.]
subjects <05650> [We are thy servants.]
obey <08085> [If ye be mine. Heb. If ye be for me.]
take ... heads <03947 07218> [take ye.]
[See on]
master's sons ................. sons <0113 01121> [your master's sons.]
raising <01431> [which brought them up.]
"The rich," says Mr. Morier, "hire a {dedeh,} or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his {laleh,} who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a {gees sefeed,} or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the {laleh.}"
executed ... seventy ... them They <07657 07819> [slew seventy.]
came ....... brought <0935> [there came.]
Stack .... two <07760 08147> [Lay ye them.]
Such barbarities are by no means uncommon in the East. "It has been know to occur," says Mr. Morier, "after the combat was over, that prisoners have been put to death in cold blood, in order that the heads, which are immediately despatched to the king, and deposited in heaps at the place gates, might make a more considerable show."
morning <01242> [until the morning.]
