2 Kings 10:26
in 2 Kings 10They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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.
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This verse in 2 Kings 10
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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).
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 Awakening2 voices
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.
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 words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּצִ֛אוּ | vaiyotziu | and they brought out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מַצְּב֥וֹת | matzevot | [the] sacred pillars of | H4676 → | 32 times |
| בֵּית־ | beit- | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַבַּ֖עַל | habaal | <the> Baal | H1168 → | 82 times |
| וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֽוּהָ׃ | vaiyisrefuha | and they burned it | H8313 → | 117 times |
וַיֹּצִ֛אוּand they brought out
vaiyotziuH3318 →1067 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
מַצְּב֥וֹת[the] sacred pillars of
matzevotH4676 →32 times
בֵּית־[the] house of
beit-H1004 →2046 times
הַבַּ֖עַל<the> Baal
habaalH1168 →82 times
וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֽוּהָ׃and they burned it
vaiyisrefuhaH8313 →117 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
1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:2
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.
- Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Deuteronomy 12:2
Through
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.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 10:18
Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.
- 2 Kings 10:26–28
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
- 1 Kings 21:25
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
- 2 Kings 10:18
Through
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.
it leads to
- Acts 17:29
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.
- Acts 17:29
Through
2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 14:11–12
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…
- Deuteronomy 7:5
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.
- 1 Chronicles 14:11–12
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.