2 Kings 10:27
in 2 Kings 10They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.
KJV
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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This verse in 2 Kings 10
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd 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.
This site's exposition
Go in and kill them
on 2 Kings 10:25-27
Once the burnt offering is finished, Jehu tells the guards, “Go in and kill them,” and Baal's worshippers are struck down inside the house. They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. The temple becomes a latrine, which it is to this day.
This site's exposition
made it into a latrine
John Gill lists what Baal was taken to be: Belus to some, Saturn to others, and the sun, which Gill thought the likeliest. The Berean's latrine renders the older draught house, a common sewer in Gill's gloss. Gill called it a fit end for the temple of a dunghill god.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years. Here is all the account of the reign of Jehu, though it continued twenty-eight years. The progress of it answered not to the glory of its beginning.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
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.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּ | vaiyitetzu | and they pulled down | H5422 → | 42 times |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מַצְּבַ֣ת | matzevat | [the] sacred pillar of | H4676 → | 32 times |
| הַבָּ֑עַל | habaal | <the> Baal | H1168 → | 82 times |
| וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙ | vaiyitetzu | and they pulled down | H5422 → | 42 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַבַּ֔עַל | habaal | <the> Baal | H1168 → | 82 times |
| וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ | vaysimuhu | and they made it | H7760 → | 584 times |
| לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת | lemacharaot | <into> outhouses | H4163 → | |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַיּֽוֹם׃ | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּand they pulled down
vaiyitetzuH5422 →42 times
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
מַצְּבַ֣ת[the] sacred pillar of
matzevatH4676 →32 times
הַבָּ֑עַל<the> Baal
habaalH1168 →82 times
וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙and they pulled down
vaiyitetzuH5422 →42 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
הַבַּ֔עַל<the> Baal
habaalH1168 →82 times
וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּand they made it
vaysimuhuH7760 →584 times
לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת<into> outhouses
lemacharaotH4163 →
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
הַיּֽוֹם׃this day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezra 6:11I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own…
it leads to
- Daniel 3:29
Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble.…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 2:5
The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 7:26
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
- Esther 5:4
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
- Daniel 3:29
Through
Daniel 2:5The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to…
it leads to
- Ezra 6:11
I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own…
- Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Ezra 6:11
Through
1 Kings 16:32First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 10:21
Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end…
- 2 Kings 10:26–27
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
- 2 Kings 10:21
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.