2 Kings 10:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are with me and willing to obey me, then take off the heads^[a] of these men, the sons of Ahab, and bring them to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.”

There were seventy sons of the king who were being raised by the leading citizens of the city. ⁷ When they received the letter, they slew the king’s sons, seventy of them, and they put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jezreel.

⁸ When the messenger arrived, he told him, “We have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Put them in two piles at the entrance to the gates until the morning.”