2 KINGS 10:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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 entering in of the gate until the morning.”
In the morning he went out and stood, and said to all the people: 'You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him; but who struck down all these?' — Jehu's rhetorical question affirms that the slaughter of the seventy was the city's doing, not his direct command. This distinction preserves the appearance of legitimacy.
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