1 Kings 18:40
40 Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to athe brook Kishon, band slaughtered them there.
2 Kings 10:6
6 Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me about this time tomorrow at Jezreel.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.
2 Kings 10:7
7 Now it happened that when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and aslaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:24
24 Then they came in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.
Now Jehu had placed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, “aThe one who permits any of the men whom I cause to come into your hands to escape, shall give up his life in exchange.”
2 Kings 10:25
25 Now it happened that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the aguard and to the royal officers, “bCome in, strike them down; let none come out.” And they struck them down with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out and went to the inner room of the house of Baal.
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