Verse 6
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them ,.... Having gained his point by the former:
saying, if ye be mine , acknowledge yourselves my subjects and servants:
and if ye will hearken to my voice ; obey my commands:
take ye the heads of the men your master's sons ; that is, take off their heads:
and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time meaning with the heads along with them:
(now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up;) they were in their houses, and under their tuition, and so had an authority over them, and could dispose of them at pleasure; they were not ordinary persons to whose care they were committed, but the principal men of the city.
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