2 Kings 10:5-7
subjects <05650> [We are thy servants.]
obey <08085> [If ye be mine. Heb. If ye be for me.]
take ... heads <03947 07218> [take ye.]
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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.]
