They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal. They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
Cross-references (14)
- 1 Kings 14:23 (v26) For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Ezra 6:11 (v27) I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened…
- Daniel 2:5 (v27) The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be…
- Daniel 3:29 (v27) Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and…
- 1 Kings 16:32 (v27) He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
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- Leviticus 26:30 (v27) I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul…
- Deuteronomy 7:5 (v27) But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and…
- Deuteronomy 7:25 (v27) You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for…
- 2 Samuel 5:21 (v26) They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
- 2 Kings 3:2 (v26) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his…
- 2 Kings 18:4 (v27) He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had…
- 2 Kings 19:18 (v26) and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed…
- 2 Kings 23:7-14 (v27) He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. He…
- 2 Chronicles 34:3-7 (v27) For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he…
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv26–28 2Ki 10:26 And they brought forth the images out…
2Ki 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
Ver. 26. And they brought forth the images, and burned them.] So they did here in King Edward VI’s reign; and the same day Musselburgh field in Scotland was won by the English.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv26–27 Heb. it, i.e. the collection of the images, or…
Heb. it, i.e. the collection of the images, or each of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv26–28 And they brought forth the images out of the…
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burnt them. Lesser images, the images of other deities, or what were placed as decorations of the temple.
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burnt them. Lesser images, the images of other deities, or what were placed as decorations of the temple.
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kg2 10:27And they broke down the temple of Baal,.... Which some take to be Belus, others Saturn, others the sun, which seems most probable:
and broke down the house of Baal; his temple, demolished it:
and made it a draught house until this day; a common sewer, a jakes; a fit place for dunghill gods to be thrown into, and an idol temple to be turned into.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v27 Draught-house - A sink or common shore.
Draught-house - A sink or common shore.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v27 Verse 27. Made it a draught house] A place…
Verse 27. Made it a draught house] A place for human excrement; so all the versions understand it. Nothing could be more degrading than this; he made it a public necessary.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v26 2Ki 10:26-27. The images of the house of Baal…
2Ki 10:26-27. The images of the house of Baal — A collection of different images. The image of Baal — The chief image, which they worshipped more than the rest. And brake down the house of Baal — As, no doubt, they did the rest of the houses of Baal in Israel. And made it a draught-house — A sink or common shore; that the remembrance of it might be blotted out or made infamous. Thus was the worship of Baal quite destroyed, at least for the present, out of Israel, though it had once prevailed so far, that there were but seven thousand, of all the thousands of Israel, that had not bowed the knee to Baal. Thus will Jehovah, sooner or later, triumph over all the gods of the heathen.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv26–27 The images - Or “pillars” of wood. The Phoenician…
The images - Or “pillars” of wood. The Phoenician pillar idols were mere columns, obelisks, or posts, destitute of any shaping into the semblance of humanity (compare 1Ki 14:23 note).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v27 A jakes, or necessary [latrine]. (Haydock) --- See 1…
A jakes, or necessary [latrine]. (Haydock) --- See 1 Esdras vi. 11., and Daniel ii. 5.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv26–27 26. Brought… the images — These are supposed to…
26. Brought… the images — These are supposed to have been wooden statues or pillars consecrated to Baal or some of his associate deities.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv26–28 26. And they brought forth the images] R.V. pillars.…
26. And they brought forth the images] R.V. pillars. On this word see above, 2Ki_3:2 note. The same change is also made by R.V. in the next verse. The LXX. has the singular in this verse (στήλην) and the plural in 27. As the worship of Astarte was combined with that of Baal, we can understand that in such a splendid temple as that which Ahab and Jezebel had erected, there would be more pillars (or sacred obelisks) than one, though one would be specially known as ‘the pillar of Baal’.
and burnt them] So that these more numerous pillars must have been of wood. Probably they were of less size than the chief obelisk.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv26–28 (26) The images.—Rather, the pillars; which were of wood,…
(26) The images.—Rather, the pillars; which were of wood, and had a sacred significance. (Comp. Hos_3:4.) “In primitive times a pillar was the distinguishing mark of a holy place. Idolatrous pillars were commanded to be destroyed (Exo_23:24), but most critics think that pillars to Jehovah were quite allowable till the time of Hezekiah or Josiah, to which they assign the Book of Deuteronomy. (Comp. Deu_16:21-22.) At any rate, the prophet (Isaiah) gives an implicit sanction to the erection of a sacred pillar in Egypt” (Cheyne’s Note on Isa_19:19). The LXX. has the singular here (τὴν στήλην) and the plural in the next verse. The Syriac has the singular “statue” in both.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv26–28 And they brought forth the images out of the…
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal; rather, the pillars. (see the comment on 1Ki_14:23) It was a special feature of the Phoenician worship to represent the gods by sthlai or kionev, which appear to have been conical stones, or obelisks, destitute of any shaping into the semblance of humanity (see Tacitus, "Hist.," 2:3; Damasc. ap. Phot, "Bibliothec.," p. 1063; Max. Tyr.," Diss.," 38. p. 384). The Phoenicians acknowledged several deities besides Baal, as Ashtoreth, Melkarth, Dagon, Adonis or Tammuz, El, Sadyk, Esmun, and the Kabiri. The "pillars brought forth" may have represented some of these deities, who might all of them be "contemplar" deities with Baal; or they may have been "Baalim," i.e. forms and aspects of Baal, each the object of some special cult (see Hovers, "Phonizier," And burned them. The "pillars" in this instance were probably, not of stone, but of wood.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv27–28 10:27 Turning the destroyed temple of Baal . .…
10:27 Turning the destroyed temple of Baal . . . into a public toilet rendered it unclean, unfit for future religious ceremonies.
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