Study it in the app“And it happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.”
And it happened,וַיְהִיwhenכְּthe letterהַסֵּפֶרcameבֹאto them,אֲלֵיהֶםthat they tookוַיִּקְחוּthe king’sהַמֶּלֶךְsonsבְּנֵיand slaughtered them,וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּseventyשִׁבְעִיםpersons,אִישׁand putוַיָּשִׂימוּtheir headsרָאשֵׁיהֶםin basketsבַּדּוּדִיםand sent themוַיִּשְׁלְחוּto himאֵלָיוat Jezreel.יִזְרְעֶאלָה
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsletter
A writing sent to someone with a message or an order, like a king's letter.
Where else “sefer” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “vo” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikchu” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appearskill
To kill people with violence, at times as a sacrifice or punishment.
Where else “yishchatu” appearsseventy
Seventy.
Where else “shivim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsput
To put something somewhere.
Where else “yasimu” appearshead
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “rashe” appearsbasket
A woven basket for carrying things, like fruit or earth.
Where else “dudim” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “yishlchu” appearsJezreel
See it on the mapWhere else “yizrela” appearsJezreel
Today: Zir'in and the Jezreel Valley, Israel
A city and valley in northern Israel, between Galilee and Samaria.
There Ahab and Jezebel took Naboth's vineyard (1 Kgs 21:1-16), and Jezebel died there (2 Kgs 9:30-37).
6He wrote to them a letter a second time, saying, “If you are for me, and you are listening to my voice, take the heads of the men, the sons of your master, 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 bringing up them.
7 · This verse (above)
8The messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
