2 Kings 10:7-9

21st Century King James Version

⁷ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent him them at Jezreel.

⁸ And there came a messenger and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” And he said, “Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

⁹ And it came to pass in the morning that he went out and stood, and said to all the people, “Ye are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and slew him, but who slew all these?