2 Chronicles 23:17

Then kol HaAm went to the Beis HaBa'al, and tore it down, and broke in pieces its mizbechot and its tzelem, and slaughtered Mattan Kohen HaBaal in front of the mizbechot.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

In Context

16And Yehoyada made a brit between him, and between Kol HaAm, and between HaMelech, that they should be Am La Hashem.

18Also Yehoyada assigned the Pekudot of the Beis Hashem by the yad of the Kohanim the Levi'im, whom Dovid had assigned in the Beis Hashem, to offer olot Hashem, as it is written in the Torat Moshe, with simcha and with shir, as it was ordained by Dovid.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:3And ye shall overthrow their mizbechot, and break their matzeivot, and burn their Asherim with eish; and ye shall hew down peselim of their elohim, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

1 Kings 18:40And Eliyahu said unto them, Seize the nevi'im of Ba'al; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Eliyahu brought them down to the Brook Kishon, and slaughtered them there.

2 Kings 11:18And kol HaAm HaAretz went into the bais Ba'al, and tore it down; its mizbechot and its tzelem they thoroughly broke in pieces, and slaughtered Mattan kohen HaBaal in front of the mizbechot. And + 11:18 Yehoyada HaKohen assigned the Pekudot (Oversight) over the Beis Hashem.

2 Chronicles 34:4And they demolished the mizbechot of Ba'alim in his presence; and the incense stands erected above them he smashed; and the Asherim, and the pesilim, and the massekhot he demolished and made dust of them, and scattered upon the keverim (graves) of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Isaiah 2:18And the elilim shall utterly pass away. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 23:13-21

Joash Crowned and Athaliah Slain. ( b. c. 878.) 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord : 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. 14… Read the whole commentary →

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