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2 Kings 10:25

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When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

KJV

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

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Commentary

4 notes on this verse
As soon as he had made an end of offering - The actual sacrificers were no doubt the priests of Baal; but Jehu is considered to have made the offering, since he furnished the victims. Compare 1Ki 8:62-63. The guard - literally, “the runners.” This name seems to have been given to the royal body-guard as early as the time of Saul (1Sa 22:17, margin). It was their duty to run by the side of the king’s chariot as he moved from plaze to place.

This site's exposition

Go in, and slay them

on 2 Kings 10:25-27

Once the burnt offering is finished, Jehu gives the order to the guard and the captains, and Baal's worshippers are struck down inside the house that had just filled to capacity. The image of Baal, apparently a stone pillar standing outside the temple, is broken down separately from the wooden images burned within, and the house itself is reduced to a common latrine, still standing that way when the record was written. The Baal-house trap that filled the temple with Baal's own people empties it just as completely.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

As soon as he had made an end of offering - Had Jehu been a man of any conscientious principle in religion, he would have finished the tragedy before he offered the burnt-offering; but to a man of no religion, the worship of Jehovah and of Baal are alike. If he prefers either, it is merely as a statesman, for political purposes. To the guard and to the captains - לרצים ולשלשים leratsim uleshalashim; to the couriers or runners, and the shalashim, the men of the third rank, those officers who were next to the nobles, the king and these being only their superiors. The runners were probably a sort of light infantry. The city of the house of Baal - Does not this mean a sort of holy of holies, where the most sacred images of Baal were kept? A place separated from the temple of Baal, as the holy of holies in the temple of Jehovah was separated from what was called the holy place.

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיְהִ֞יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כְּכַלֹּת֣וֹ׀when finished he

    kekhalotoH3615 →208 times

  • לַעֲשׂ֣וֹתto offer

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • הָעֹלָ֗הthe burnt offering

    haolahH5930 →287 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יֵ֠הוּאJehu

    yehu'H3058 →58 times

  • לָרָצִ֨יםto the runners

    laratzimH7323 →103 times

  • וְלַשָּׁלִשִׁ֜יםand to the officers

    velashalishimH7991 →20 times

  • בֹּ֤אוּgo

    bouH935 →2568 times

  • הַכּוּם֙strike down them

    hakumH5221 →499 times

  • אִ֣ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • יֵצֵ֔אhe come out

    yetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • וַיַּכּ֖וּםand they struck down them

    vaiyakumH5221 →499 times

  • לְפִי־to [the] mouth of

    lefi-H6310 →498 times

  • חָ֑רֶב[the] sword

    charevH2719 →413 times

  • וַיַּשְׁלִ֗כוּand they threw [them] out

    vaiyashlikhuH7993 →125 times

  • הָֽרָצִים֙the runners

    haratzimH7323 →103 times

  • וְהַשָּׁ֣לִשִׁ֔יםand the officers

    vehashalishimH7991 →20 times

  • וַיֵּלְכ֖וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • עִ֥יר[the] city of

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • הַבָּֽעַל׃<the> Baal

    habaalH1168 →82 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Revelation 16:6–7For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”4 works2 Kings 23:20On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.4 worksEzekiel 22:21–22Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city.3 works1 Kings 18:40Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.3 worksExodus 32:27He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”2 worksDeuteronomy 13:6–11If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 9:5–7And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!2 works2 Chronicles 23:14And Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, saying, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”2 works1 Samuel 22:17Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Exodus 32:27

    He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 25:5

      So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

    • Luke 14:26

      “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

    • Deuteronomy 33:8–9

      Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.

  • Through

    1 Kings 18:40

    Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 18:20

      But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put…

    • Judges 4:7

      And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”

    • Deuteronomy 13:5

      Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the…

    • Judges 5:21

      The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

    • Zechariah 13:2–3

      And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and…

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About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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