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And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_kings/10.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/2_kings/10.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/2_kings/10.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_kings/10.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/2_kings/10.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/2_kings/10.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/10.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/2_kings/10.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/2_kings/10.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/2_kings/10.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_kings/10.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/2_kings/10.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/2_kings/10.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/2_kings/10.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/2_kings/10.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/1_kings/19-11.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/2_kings/10.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_kings/10.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/2_kings/10.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/2_kings/10.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/2_kings/10.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/2_kings/10.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_kings/10.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/2_kings/10.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/2_kings/10.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/2_kings/10.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/10.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/2_kings/10.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/2_kings/10.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/2_kings/10.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/2_kings/10.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21) <span class= "bld">Sent through all Israel.</span>—The Vatican LXX. <span class= "ital">adds</span>, “saying: And now all his servants, and all his priests, and all his prophets, let none be wanting; because I make a great sacrifice. Whoever shall be wanting he shall not live.” This is another instance (comp. <a href="/2_kings/9-16.htm" title="So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.">2Kings 9:16</a>) of the insertion in the text of a marginal note belonging to another place. The note preserves the reading of the first half of <a href="/2_kings/10-19.htm" title="Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.">2Kings 10:19</a> according to another MS. (See Thenius <span class= "ital">ad loc</span>.)<p><span class= "bld">Was full from one end to another.</span>—Right as to the sense. The figure is taken from a full vessel; as if we were to say, “The house was brimful.” The rim of a vessel was its <span class= "ital">mouth</span>. The rim of the contents reached the rim of the vessel. Schulz explains “head to head” (comp. the margin); Gesenius, “from corner to corner” (comp. <a href="/2_kings/21-16.htm" title="Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.">2Kings 21:16</a>); LXX. literally, <span class= "greekheb">στόμα εἰς στόμα</span> “mouth to mouth.”<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_kings/10.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>10:15-28 Is thine heart right? This is a question we should often put to ourselves. I make a fair profession, have gained a reputation among men, but, is my heart right? Am I sincere with God? Jehonadab owned Jehu in the work, both of revenge and of reformation. An upright heart approves itself to God, and seeks no more than his acceptance; but if we aim at the applause of men, we are upon a false foundation. Whether Jehu looked any further we cannot judge. The law of God was express, that idolaters were to be put to death. Thus idolatry was abolished for the present out of Israel. May we desire that it be rooted out of our hearts.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_kings/10.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>In order to understand how such numbers could find room, we must remember that the ancient temples had vast courts around them, which could contain many thousands. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_kings/10.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>19. call unto me all the prophets of Baal—The votaries of Baal are here classified under the several titles of prophets, priests, and servants, or worshippers generally. They might be easily convened into one spacious temple, as their number had been greatly diminished both by the influential ministrations of Elijah and Elisha, and also from the late King Joram's neglect and discontinuance of the worship. Jehu's appointment of a solemn sacrifice in honor of Baal, and a summons to all his worshippers to join in its celebration, was a deep-laid plot, which he had resolved upon for their extinction, a measure in perfect harmony with the Mosaic law, and worthy of a constitutional king of Israel. It was done, however, not from religious, but purely political motives, because he believed that the existence and interests of the Baalites were inseparably bound up with the dynasty of Ahab and because he hoped that by their extermination he would secure the attachment of the far larger and more influential party who worshipped God in Israel. Jehonadab's concurrence must have been given in the belief of his being actuated solely by the highest principles of piety and zeal.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/2_kings/10.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">There was not a man left that came not; </span> either, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. Because they thought Jehu was serious and sincere in his professions; it being natural and usual for men too easily to believe what they wish to be true. And for the priests which Jehu destroyed before, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_kings/10-11.htm" title="So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.">2 Kings 10:11</a></span>, they might think that was done only because of their nearness and relation to Ahab and his family. Or, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. For fear of their lives; for certain death was threatened to all that did not come, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_kings/10-19.htm" title="Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.">2 Kings 10:19</a></span>, which considering Jehu’s fierce and bloody temper, they knew would be executed; whereas, if they did come, there was more than a possibility of the sparing of their lives; for Jehu was known to be indifferent and unconcerned in matters of religion, one that had served Baal when his prince Ahab lived and did so and forsook it when the next prince Joram did; and therefore it was doubtful whether Jehu had not in good earnest returned to his first love, to that religion which he had formerly embraced, and only deserted in complacency to others. Or, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. By God’s just providence, deceiving their minds and inclining their hearts to come to their own destruction. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Into the house, </span> i.e. the temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/2_kings/10.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Jehu sent through all Israel,.... Persons to proclaim this solemn assembly: <p>and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not; some no doubt came cheerfully, having no suspicion of him, and the rather, as he might have been a worshipper of Baal in the times of Ahab; and as for what he had done to Baal's priests, they might consider that only as they were in connection with Ahab's family, whom to destroy was his political interest; and they were glad at heart their new king was so affected to Baal, and fond to see such a grand solemnity as they expected this to be; and others that might be suspicious of him, yet as they must die if they did not appear, and there was a possibility they might live, chose therefore to come: <p>and they came into the house of Baal; the temple which Ahab had built for him in Samaria, <a href="/1_kings/16-32.htm">1 Kings 16:32</a>. <p>and the house of Baal was full from one end to the other; not only the body of the temple, but all the outward court, every mouth, or corner, as in the original text: and this single house might be sufficient for all in the land; since the number of them might be greatly lessened by the ministry of Elijah and Elisha, as well as by the destruction the former made of the prophets of Baal; and by the schools of the prophets set up in various places, from whence prophets were sent out to instruct the people; and by Joram's putting away the image of Baal, which no doubt lessened the number of his worshippers. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_kings/10.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_kings/10.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">21</span>. <span class="ital">And Jehu sent through all Israel</span>] Here the LXX. adds the words of the notice; ‘saying, And now all ye worshippers, and all his priests and all his prophets, let no one be absent, for I am about to make a great sacrifice: whosoever shall be absent, he shall not live’. Similarly after ‘And all the worshippers of Baal came’ there is inserted ‘and all his priests and all his prophets’. These amplifications are no evidence that the Hebrew text ever had more than now stands in it. The LXX. often exhibits a desire to round off a narrative in a way very unlike Hebrew.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">not a man left that came not</span>] They had been largely encouraged in previous reigns, but now they were to be elevated above all others. Hence all that desired to be popular with the new king and could establish their claim to be counted Baalites, would reckon it a good chance, and come without fail.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">the house of Baal</span>] ‘House’ is the constant word for ‘temple’ in the Old Testament, and no doubt this building was as magnificent as the architectural skill of Tyrian workmen, and the zeal of the house of Ahab, with whom architecture seems to have been a passion, could make it. Hence it would be large enough to contain in its spacious courts an immense number of worshippers. For ‘house’ used of Solomon’s temple, see <a href="/1_kings/8-13.htm" title="I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in for ever.">1 Kings 8:13</a>; <a href="/context/1_kings/8-16.htm" title="Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel....">1 Kings 8:16-19</a>, and constantly in the history of David and Solomon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">from one end to another</span>] The Hebrew phrase is ‘mouth to mouth’ but there is no need to understand, with margin of A.V. ‘so full that they stood mouth to mouth’ which they only could have done in pairs. As in other languages, ‘mouth’ is used in Hebrew for any opening, as of a sack (<a href="/genesis/42-27.htm" title="And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.">Genesis 42:27</a>), of a cave (<a href="/joshua/10-18.htm" title="And Joshua said, Roll great stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:">Joshua 10:18</a>; <a href="/joshua/10-22.htm" title="Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave.">Joshua 10:22</a>; <a href="/joshua/10-27.htm" title="And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.">Joshua 10:27</a>), and so any doorway or entrance. Hence here ‘from one entrance to the other’. Almost the same phrase is used <a href="/ezra/9-11.htm" title="Which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.">Ezra 9:11</a> (as will be seen from margin of A.V.), of a land filled ‘from one end to the other’.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Jehu sent through all Israel</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> through the whole of his own kingdom, from Dan on the north to Bethel on the south. <span class="cmt_word">And all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not.</span> Duty and inclination for once coincided. The king's command made it incumbent on them, they would argue, to attend; and attendance would, they supposed, result in a time of excitement and enjoyment, which they were not disposed to miss. The death-penalty threatened for non-attendance (ver. 19) was scarcely needed to induce them all to come. <span class="cmt_word">And they came into the house of Baal.</span> Ahab had erected a temple to Baal in Samaria shortly after his marriage with Jezebel (<a href="/1_kings/16-22.htm">1 Kings 16:22</a>). Like the other temples of the time, in Judaea, in Egypt, and in Phoenicia, it was not a mere "house," but contained vast courts and corridors fitted for the reception of immense numbers. <span class="cmt_word">And the house of Baal was full from one end to another</span>; literally, <span class="accented">from brim to brim</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> brimful - "metaphora sumpta a vasibus humore aliquo plenis." 2 Kings 10:21<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/2_kings/10.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The temple of Baal was filled לפה פּה, "from one edge (end) to the other." פּה in this sense is not to be derived from פּאה, a corner (Cler., Ges.), but signifies mouth, or the upper rim of a vessel. 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