2 Kings 10:27
and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day.
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In The King James Version
In Context
26and they took away the statue from the shrine of Baal, and they burned it up
28And thus did Jehu wipe away Baal from Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 34:13But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.
Deuteronomy 7:5So instead, you shall do this to them: overturn their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves, and burn up their graven images.
1 Kings 16:32And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built at Samaria.
2 Kings 11:18And all the people of the land entered the temple of Baal, and they tore down his altars, and they thoroughly crushed the statues. Also, they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altar. And the priest placed guards in the house of the Lord.
2 Kings 23:7Also, he destroyed the small places of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women were weaving something like little houses in the sacred grove.
Ezra 6:11Therefore, the decree has been set forth by me, so that, if there be any man who will change this order, a beam shall be taken from his own house, and it shall be set up, and he shall be nailed to it. Then his house shall be confiscated.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 10:16-29
Interview between Jehu and Jehonadab; the Worshippers of Baal Destroyed. ( b. c. 884.) 15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord . So they made him ride in his chariot. 17 And when he… Read the whole commentary →