2 Kings 10:7
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.
2 Kings 10:14
10:14 He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.
2 Kings 25:7
25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. 2 The king of Babylon 3 then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.
1 tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”
2 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.