2 Kings 10:6 (KJV)

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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying If ye be mine and if ye will hearken unto my voice take ye the heads of the men your aster’s sons and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time Now the king’s sons being seventy persons were with the great men of the city which brought them up

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Cross-references

If ye be mine. Heb. If ye be for me. 2Ki 9:32 Mt 12:30 Lu 9:50

take ye. Nu 25:4

See on 1Ki 21:8-11

your master's sons. De 5:9 Jos 7:24 Jos 7:25 Job 21:19 Isa 14:21 Isa 14:22 Re 2:20-23

which brought them up."The rich," says Mr. Morier, "hire a {dedeh,} or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his {laleh,} who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a {gees sefeed,} or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the {laleh.}"

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