RichTestOrg_en_tn/2ki/10/01.md

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seventy descendants

"70 descendants" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)

Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria

This means that Jehu sent a messenger to deliver the letters. AT: "Jehu wrote letters and sent a messenger to deliver them in Samaria" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

saying, "Your master's

"The letters said, 'Your master's"

set him on his father's throne

Here, sitting on the king's throne means to be appointed as king. AT: "make him king in his father's place" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

for your master's royal line

"your master's descendants." Here the man that they selected to be king is referred to as Ahab's royal line of descendants. AT: "to defend your master's descendant" or "to defend him" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)

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