2 Kings 10:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ When they received the letter, they slew the king’s sons, seventy of them, and they put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jezreel.

⁸ When the messenger arrived, he told him, “We have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Put them in two piles at the entrance to the gates until the morning.”

⁹ The next morning, he went out and stood before all the people and said to them, “You are innocent! I plotted against my master and killed him, but who killed all of these?