2 Kings 10:7

And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
letter	הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ ha.Se.fer	H5612	properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
came	כְּבֹ֤א ke.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
took	וַיִּקְחוּ֙ vai.yik.Chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
king’s	הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
sons	בְּנֵ֣י be.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
slew	וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ vai.yish.cha.Tu	H7819	to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
seventy	שִׁבְעִ֣ים shiv.'Im	H7657	seventy · noun, common masculine plural absolute
persons	אִ֑ישׁ 'Ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
put	וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ vai.ya.Si.mu	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
heads	רָֽאשֵׁיהֶם֙ ra.shei.Hem	H7218	the head (as most easily shaken) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
baskets	בַּדּוּדִ֔ים ba.du.Dim	H1731	a pot (for boiling) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
sent	וַיִּשְׁלְח֥וּ vai.yish.le.Chu	H7971	to send away · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
Jezreel	יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה yiz.re.'E.lah	H3157	Jizreel · proper noun, a place name + directional suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him…
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Judges 9:5-57 And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone…
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my…
2 Chronicles 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers al…
Matthew 14:8-11 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 10:1-14

We left Jehu in quiet possession of Jezreel, triumphing over Joram and Jezebel; and we must now attend his further motions. He knew the whole house of Ahab must be cut off, and therefore proceeded in this bloody work, and did not do it deceitfully, or by halves, Jer 48:10. I. He got the heads of all the sons of Ahab cut off by their own guardians at Samaria. Seventy sons (or grandsons) Ahab had, Gideon's number, Jdg 8:30. In such a number that bore his name his family was likely to be perpetuated, and yet it is extirpated all at once. Such a quiver full of arrows could not protect his house from divine vengeance. Numerous families, if vicious, must not expect to be long prosperous. These son…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 10:6

take ye the heads of the men, your master's sons--The barbarous practice of a successful usurper slaughtering all who may have claims to the throne, has been frequently exemplified in the ancient and modern histories of the East.

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 10:7

Put their heads in baskets - What cold-blooded wretches were the whole of these people!

John Gill on 2 Kings 10:7

And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,.... They did not in the least hesitate, but immediately complied with the contents of it: that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons; which was the whole number of them: and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jezreel; as a present to Jehu, just as they carried the firstfruits, as Abarbinel observes.

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 10:6-7

Jehu then wrote them a second letter, to say that if they would hearken to his voice, they were to send to him on the morrow at this time, to Jezreel, the heads of the sons of their lord; which they willingly did, slaying the seventy men, and sending him their heads in baskets. אד בּני אנשׁי ראשׁי, "the heads of the men of sons of your lord," i.e., of the male descendants of Ahab, in which אנשׁי may be explained from the fact that בּני־אדניכם has the meaning "royal princes" (see the similar case in Jdg 19:22). In order to bring out still more clearly the magnitude of Jehu's demand, the number of the victims required is repeated in the circumstantial clause, "and there were seventy men of the…

Dictionary and topics

Basket — There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17,…
Behead — A method of taking away life practised among the Egyptians (Gen. 40:17-19). There are instances of this mode of punishment also among the Hebrews (2 Sam. 4:8; 20:21, 22; 2 Kings 10:6-8). It is also…
Jezreel — God scatters. (1.) A town of Issachar (Josh. 19:18), where the kings of Israel often resided (1 Kings 18:45; 21:1; 2 Kings 9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his…
Writing — The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded “to write for a memorial in a book” (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is…
Ahab · . — .
Basket · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Enthusiasm · .Jehu — .Jehu
Jehu · .Religious zeal of, in killing idolaters — .Religious zeal of, in killing idolaters
Massacre · . — .

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 10:7

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 10:1-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 10:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 10:7

John Gill on 2 Kings 10:7

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 10:6-7

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2 Kings 10:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 10:1-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 10:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 10:7

John Gill on 2 Kings 10:7

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 10:6-7

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 10:6-7

Rashi on 2 Kings 10:7