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Then 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.
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It 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.
8
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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It 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?