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Ahaziah’s Forty-Two Brothers Are Killed

12 Then Jehu left and went to Samaria. On the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds, 13 Jehu met the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah. He asked them, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We have come down to visit the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.” 14 Jehu said, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, and killed them at the hole of Beth-eked, forty-two men. He left none of them alive.

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