They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
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They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
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And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
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And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 10:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezra 6:11 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 on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
- Daniel 2:5 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 cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
- Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
- 1 Kings 16:32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
- Leviticus 26:30 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 will abhor you.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 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 burn their engraved images with fire.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 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 yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- 2 Kings 18:4 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 made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 23:7-14 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 brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city. Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon. He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3-7 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 began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images. They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 10:27 And they brake down the image of…
2Ki 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Ver. 27. And brake down the house of Baal.] So Theodosius pulled down the idol temples, which Constantine had shut only, but Julian opened them again; and our Henry VIII demolished the abbeys and monasteries, using these words, Corvorum nidi sunt penitus disturbandi, ne iterum ad cohabitandum convolent: Those crows’ nests are to be utterly destroyed, that they be no more frequented and re-inhabited.
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And made it a draught house.] Or, Jakes or out house. Here the Masorites put a more cleanly word in their Keri in the margin; as if they would prompt to the Holy Ghost a more mannerly speech. {a} {Hebrew Text Note} So they do in Deu 28:30 Jer 3:2. Less marvel, then, if they deal so with the words of Rabshakeh, Isa 36:12.
{a} Dr Rich.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The image of Baal; the chief image, which they…
The image of Baal; the chief image, which they worshipped more than the rest.
Brake down the house of Baal; and the like they did with the rest of the houses of Baal in Israel; as may be gathered both from the nature and reason of the thing, and from 2Ki 10:28.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images…
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images and temples being served thus in all places, throughout the land of Israel, where there were any.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images and temples being served thus in all places, throughout the land of Israel, where there were any.
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2 Kings 10:29
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kg2 10:29Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,.... Which is the common character given of that king, a blot never to be wiped off:
Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan: he did not abstain from the worship of them, partly because he might not think it idolatry, because God was worshipped in them; hence he calls the worshippers of the calves the servants of the Lord, Kg2 10:23, and partly that he might not displease the princes of the people of Israel, who generally gave in to the worship of them; but chiefly lest the kingdom of Israel should return to the house of David, the worship of the calves being a piece of state policy, to keep them from going to Jerusalem to worship, lest thereby they should be drawn off from their allegiance to the king of Israel.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Draught-house - A sink or common shore.
Draught-house - A sink or common shore.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain 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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And they brake down the image of Baal -…
And they brake down the image of Baal - The other images, it appears, were not images of Baal, but of inferior deities. The image of Baal, which was “broken down,” and not burned, would seem to have been of stone, perhaps erected in front of the temple.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain 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 27. The image of Baal — This was probably…
27. The image of Baal — This was probably a vast molten statue of the god, erected outside of the temple, perhaps at the portal.
A draught house — A place of refuse and filth. The Masoretes have substituted a word which signifies sewers.
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Thus did Jehu terribly destroy these worshippers of Baal, mingling their blood with the sacrifices of the altar, and making the very site of their great temple a place of filth. This would cover the very name of Baal with infamy and reproach.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. they brake down the image of Baal] As…
27. they brake down the image of Baal] As the verb is the same as that used immediately afterwards for the breaking down of the house, we may be almost certain that this chief object of worship was of stone. The verb is constantly employed of pulling down buildings. The LXX. omits the next clause, ‘And brake down the house of Baal’.
a draught house] The word ‘draught’ is found again in Mat_15:17; Mar_12:19. Cf. also Burton, Anatomy, p. 165, ‘Muck hills, draughts, sinks, where any carcasses or carrion lies’. For the idea cf. Ezr_6:11; Dan_2:5; Dan_3:29, ‘their houses shall be made a dunghill’.
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unto this day] See above on 2Ki_8:22. For the commands in the law to destroy the objects of heathen worship cf. Deu_7:5; Deu_7:25; Deu_12:2-3, where a destruction like that described here is enjoined.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) The image of Baal.—Again the word is pillar,…
(27) The image of Baal.—Again the word is pillar, which in this case is the conical pillar of stone representing the Baal himself. The wooden pillars of 2Ki_10:26 probably symbolised companion deities (παρέδρυι συμβώμοι) of the principal idol.
Made it a draught house.—By way of utter desecration. (Comp. Eze_6:11; Dan_2:5.)
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Unto this day.—On the bearing of this phrase, see the Introduction to the Books of Kings.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And they brake down the image of Baal; rather,…
And they brake down the image of Baal; rather, they brake in pieces the pillar of Baal. The representation of Baal, the main stele of the temple, being of stone or metal, could not be destroyed by fire, and was therefore broken to pieces. (comp. 2Ki_23:14) And brake down the house of Baali.e. partially ruined it, but still left portions of it standing, as a memorial of the sin and of its punishment a solemn warning, one would have thought, to the people of the capitaland made it a draught-house unto this day; made it, i.e. , "a depository for all the filth of the town" (Stanley); comp. Ezr_6:11; Dan_2:5 Dan_3:29; and for the word "draught" in this sense, see Mat_15:17. Such a use was the greatest possible desecration.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 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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