2 KINGS 10:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.”
He said, 'Take them alive.' So they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons; he spared none of them — the forty-two Judean kinsmen are slaughtered in a single massacre. The number forty-two echoes the youths mauled by bears for mocking Elisha (2 Kings 2:24), suggesting covenantal judgment.
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