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 19:37

19:37 One day, ⁴  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ⁵  his sons ⁶  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ⁷  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

[10:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

[10:8]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:8]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:37]  ³ sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

[19:37]  ⁴ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

[19:37]  ⁵ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

[19:37]  ⁶ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.