5 You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them,*+ because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion,*+ bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons,* upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation,* in the case of those who hate me;+

25 He now said to Bidʹkar* his adjutant:+ “Lift him up; throw him into the tract of the field of Naʹboth the Jezʹre·el·ite;+ for remember: I and you were riding teams behind Aʹhab his father, and Jehovah himself lifted up this pronouncement+ against him:

7 And it came about that as soon as the letter came to them, they went taking the sons of the king and slaughtering [them], seventy men,+ after which they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezʹre·el.

11 Moreover, Jeʹhu went on to strike down all who were left over of the house of Aʹhab in Jezʹre·el and all his distinguished men+ and his acquaintances and his priests,+ until he had let no survivor of his remain.+