2 Kings 10:26
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
BSB
ASV
And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
KJV
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
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).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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2 Kings 3:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
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Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
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2 Kings 19:18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
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Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
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2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
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So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that…
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
