Translations
He wrote them a second letter: 'If you are truly on my side and will listen to my voice, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.' Now the seventy princes were in the care of the city's prominent men, who had been raising them.
He wrote them a second letter: 'If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of the men — your master's sons — and come to me at Yizre'el by this time tomorrow.' Now the seventy royal sons were with the leading men of the city, who were raising them.
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.