and instructed his servants: "Notice when Amnon has had too much to drink, and then when I give the order, kill him. Don't be afraid. I will take the responsibility myself. Be brave and don't hesitate!"

So the servants followed Absalom's instructions and killed Amnon. All the rest of David's sons mounted their mules and fled.

So he went and caught three hundred foxes. Two at a time, he tied their tails together and put torches in the knots.

Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up not only the wheat that had been harvested but also the wheat that was still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned.

The letters said: "Proclaim a day of fasting, call the people together, and give Naboth the place of honor.

The officials and leading citizens of Jezreel did what Jezebel had commanded.

The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.

and Jehu said to them, "Throw her down!" They threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses. Jehu drove his horses and chariot over her body,

Jehu wrote them another letter: "If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow." The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care of the leading citizens of Samaria, who were bringing them up.

When Jehu's letter was received, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.