⁶ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If ye be for me, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

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 at Jezreel.

⁸ And there came a messenger and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” And he said, “Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”