2 Kings 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying: 'If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time.' Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. (See NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 19:2 and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps! (See RSV)