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13 Jehu met with the kinsmen of King Ahaziah of Judah and asked, “Who are you?”

“We are the kinsmen of Ahaziah,” they replied, “We’ve come down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen mother.”

14 “Take them alive!” he said. So they took them alive, then struck them down at the pit of Shearing House, 42 men—he spared not a single one of them.

15 Now when he left from there, he met Jehonadab son of Rechab coming to meet him. So he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right as my heart is with your heart?”

“It is,” Jehonadab replied.

“If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot.

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