3 choose him who is better and who pleases you from among the sons of your lord, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your lord.'
4 But they were vehemently afraid, and they said: 'Behold, two kings were not able to stand before him. So how will we be able to withstand him?'
5 Therefore, those who were in charge of the house, and the prefects of the city, and those greater by birth, and those who raised the sons, sent to Jehu, saying: 'We are your servants. Whatever you will order, we will do. But we will not appoint a king for ourselves. Do whatever pleases you.'
6 Then he again wrote letters to them a second time, saying: 'If you are mine, and if you obey me, take the heads of the sons of your lord, and come to me at Jezreel at this same hour tomorrow.' Now the sons of the king, being seventy men, were being raised with the nobles of the city.
7 And when the letters had arrived to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed the seventy men. And they placed their heads in baskets, and they sent these to him at Jezreel.
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