Jehu Samaria letters behind 2 Kings 10
Reported letters from Jehu to Samarian officials in the Jehu coup narrative of 2 Kings 10.
L4 Draft articles and reviews
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A two-stage letter surface in the Jehu coup narrative.
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as an extant recoverable packet of letters; it is inferred from source-citation traces and should not be read as ordinary documentation of surviving correspondence.
Epistemic status
Draft article. 2 Kings 10 gives direct letter notices and a second-letter sequence, but the independent letters are not extant here.
Summary
2 Kings 10 reports Jehu writing letters to Samaria, then writing a second letter, and the recipients acting when the letter arrived. Inferpedia treats this as a bounded correspondence source surface in the Jehu coup narrative.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the Jehu-to-Samaria correspondence surface behind 2 Kings 10.
What is attested
The text attests letters from Jehu, destination and recipient groups, a second letter, and reported action after the letter arrived.
Why infer this entity
The passage supplies repeated document notices and a sequence of delivery and response.
Evidence ledger
- E1, 2 Kings 10:1: primary trace for Jehu writing letters.
- E2, 2 Kings 10:1: primary trace for Samaria as destination.
- E3, 2 Kings 10:6: primary trace for a second letter.
- E4, 2 Kings 10:7: primary trace for action after letter arrival.
Counterarguments
The letters may be literary devices within a coup narrative rather than traces of recoverable correspondence.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation: 60. Existence warrant: 80. Specificity: 74. Reconstruction dependence: 78. Counterevidence: 20.
What would change the score
Specialist work on Jehu's coup, the composition of Kings, or comparative royal correspondence would change the score.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a two-stage letter sequence with addressees and recorded effects.
L3 Evidence packet
Bible (King James), 2 Kings 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Kings 10:1
Quote: "Jehu wrote letters"
Paraphrase: The passage explicitly reports Jehu writing letters.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 90
Cluster: 2kings10-jehu-samaria-letters
Bible (King James), 2 Kings 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Kings 10:1
Quote: "sent to Samaria"
Paraphrase: The reported letters have a specific destination.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: 2kings10-jehu-samaria-letters
Bible (King James), 2 Kings 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Kings 10:6
Quote: "wrote a letter the second time"
Paraphrase: The passage reports a second letter in the sequence.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 88
Cluster: 2kings10-jehu-samaria-letters
Bible (King James), 2 Kings 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Kings 10:7
Quote: "when the letter came to them"
Paraphrase: The narrative connects the recipients' subsequent action to arrival of the letter.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 2kings10-jehu-samaria-letters
Offline existing-inferon judge ledger control source - Network gap
Warrant role: Noetic interpretation
Source authority: Noetic model prior 50
Access level: No external text
Locator: existing_inferon_judge_promote:inferon:351
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 351 (source_dependence) as support for Jehu Samaria letters behind 2 Kings 10. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1568.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:ac809b3cb602bf83c7cfc921fc3fdd8b
Arguments
Existing inferon 351 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Jehu Samaria letters behind 2 Kings 10; this remains below publication and is not direct attestation.
AI-assessed L2 Quotient triage: AI judge warrant assessment for L2 Quotient triage; existing AI-created evidence remains below publication.
Jehu's Samaria letters behind 2 Kings 10 are warranted as a source-backed draft entity.
The repeated letter notices warrant a correspondence surface; the exact relation to archival documents is uncertain.