2 Kings 10:7

10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. 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. The king of Babylon then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.


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

tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”

tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.