2 Kings 10:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.

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  • Deut 21:23 : 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • 2 Sam 11:18-21 : 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19 and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king, 20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
  • 1 Kgs 21:14 : 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
  • Mark 6:28 : 28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 10:4-7
    4 verses
    84%

    4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand?

    5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid 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 be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men 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.

    7It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

  • 2 Kgs 10:9
    79%

    9It happened in the morning, that 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 struck all these?

  • 2 Kgs 10:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, [he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him.

    25It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

  • 2 Kgs 7:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.

    11He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

    12The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.

  • 2 Kgs 10:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,

    2Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;

  • 2 Sam 4:7-8
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    69%

    7Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

    8They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
    69%

    17The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 6:32
    69%

    32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    68%

    20He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Kgs 11:19
    68%

    19He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.

  • Mark 6:27-28
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    68%

    27Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

    28and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    68%

    15So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.

  • 2 Sam 13:35
    68%

    35Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant said, so it is.

  • 1 Chr 10:8-9
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    68%

    8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

    9They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.

  • 2 Sam 19:8
    68%

    8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

  • 1 Sam 31:9
    68%

    9They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.

  • 2 Kgs 10:12-14
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    68%

    12He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,

    13Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.

    14He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

  • 2 Kgs 11:8
    68%

    8You shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.

  • Hos 10:15
    67%

    15So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    67%

    16So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.

  • 2 Kgs 9:17
    67%

    17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

  • 2 Sam 11:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab had sent him for.

    23The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.

  • 2 Chr 22:8
    67%

    8It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them.

  • 2 Kgs 9:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.

    13Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

  • 2 Kgs 9:20
    67%

    20The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    67%

    30It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

  • 2 Kgs 9:33-34
    2 verses
    66%

    33He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.

    34When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.

  • 2 Sam 10:8
    66%

    8The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Kgs 9:27
    66%

    27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

  • Ezek 12:8
    66%

    8In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,

  • 2 Sam 4:12
    66%

    12David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

  • 2 Kgs 9:2
    66%

    2When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber.

  • Judg 6:30
    65%

    30Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.

  • 1 Kgs 13:11
    65%

    11Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.

  • 2 Sam 18:20
    65%

    20Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news another day; but this day you shall bear no news, because the king's son is dead.