and slew seventy persons R.V. and slew them, even seventy persons. Though the pronoun is not expressed in the original, it is needed for the sense. The A.V. might signify any seventy persons.

in baskets The word is that which is used (Jeremiah 24:2) for the baskets in which the figs were gathered.

sent himthem to Jezreel R.V. sent them unto him. Before they come themselves, they take care that the price, by which they expect to purchase Jehu's favour, shall be paid down. The change in R.V. from the English idiom to a more close representation of the Hebrew seems altogether unnecessary.

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