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When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:7 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 રાજાઓ ૧૦:૭
જયારે આ પત્ર તેમને પહોંચ્યો ત્યારે તેમણે રાજાના સિત્તેર રાજકુમારોને મારી નાખ્યા, તેઓના માથાં ટોપલીઓમાં ભરીને યેહૂ પાસે યિઝ્રએલમાં મોકલ્યાં.
हिन्दी2 राजाओं १०:७
यह पत्र उनके हाथ लगते ही, उन्होंने उन सत्तरों राजपुत्रों को पकड़कर मार डाला, और उनके सिर टोकरियों में रखकर यिज्रेल को उसके पास भेज दिए।

In context

5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

6Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to 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.

7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

8A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

9In the morning, he went out and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?

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