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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 10:7 Catholic Bible: When Jehu's letter was received, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/10-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_kings/10-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/10-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/10.htm">Chapter 10</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/10-6.htm" title="2 Kings 10:6">◄</a> 2 Kings 10:7 <a href="../2_kings/10-8.htm" title="2 Kings 10:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/10.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When Jehu's letter was received, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, seventy persons; they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />And when these people read Jehu's second letter, they called together all 70 of Ahab's descendants. They killed them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jezreel. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When the letter arrived, they took the princes and slew all seventy of them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.</p><p class="hdg">slew seventy</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/10-9.htm">2 Kings 10:9</a> And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the people: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him; who hath slain all these?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/11-1.htm">2 Kings 11:1</a> Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/9-5.htm">Judges 9:5</a> And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/21-21.htm">1 Kings 21:21</a> Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/21-4.htm">2 Chronicles 21:4</a> So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/14-8.htm">Matthew 14:8-11</a> But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/10.htm">Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Family</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.</span><span class="reftext">8</span>And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the entering in of the gate until the morning.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../judges/9-5.htm">Judges 9:5</a></span><br />And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/10-6.htm">2 Kings 10:6</a></span><br />And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/10-8.htm">2 Kings 10:8</a></span><br />And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the entering in of the gate until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/11-1.htm">2 Kings 11:1</a></span><br />Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/9-5.htm">Arrived</a> <a href="/exodus/38-3.htm">Baskets</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-10.htm">Death</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Heads</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-5.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Jezreel</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm">Jizreel</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-19.htm">Killed</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">King's</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Letter</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Persons</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-24.htm">Slaughtered</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-31.htm">Slew</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Arrived</a> <a href="/psalms/81-6.htm">Baskets</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-11.htm">Death</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Heads</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-11.htm">Jezreel</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-11.htm">Jizreel</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-9.htm">Killed</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">King's</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-14.htm">Letter</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-14.htm">Persons</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-5.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-14.htm">Slaughtered</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-9.htm">Slew</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/2_kings/10-7.htm">2 Kings 10:7 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and arrived at baskets came heads him in Jehu Jezreel king's letter men of persons princes put sent seventy slaughtered sons the their them these They to took When<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-7.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 10:7 It happened when the letter came (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/10-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 10:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/10-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 10:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>