They took them alive, and slew them; partly in compliance with God's command, 2 Kings 9:8, for these were of the house of Ahab by the mother's side, 2 Kings 8:18; and partly that they might neither claim the kingdom of Israel in right of their grandmother; as they might well have done, if God had not given it to Jehu; nor revenge the deaths of their near relations. At the pit of the shearing-house, where he intended to bury them.
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2 Kings 10:14
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.