Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 10:8

8 ¶ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the kings sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entring in of the gate , until the morning.

The place of Judicature; to signify, that this was an act of Justice, and of Gods Righteous Judgment; and the place of greatest concourse, where people went out of the City, and came into it, and whither they resorted for Judgment, and other occasions; that all men might behold this dreadful spectacle of Divine vengeance upon Ahab's Family, and thereby might justify Iehu's cause and proceedings.