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Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_kings/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Then they broke down the <i>sacred</i> pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_kings/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />They also tore down the memorial stone of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine <i>as it is</i> to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_kings/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />They also broke down the <i>sacred</i> pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_kings/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They also broke down the <i>sacred</i> pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_kings/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />They also tore down the <i>sacred</i> pillar of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it into a latrine [forever unclean] to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_kings/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and they tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine —which it still is today.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine—which it is to this day. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_kings/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and broke it into pieces, then they completely destroyed Baal's temple. And since that time, it's been nothing but a public toilet. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house, unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_kings/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They destroyed the sacred stone of Baal and the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine. It is still a latrine today.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_kings/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So they destroyed the sacred pillar and the temple, and turned the temple into a latrine--which it still is today. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_kings/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They also cut down the pillar to Baal, tore apart Baal's temple, and turned it into a latrine—and it remains that way today. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_kings/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_kings/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_kings/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_kings/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and break down the standing-pillar of Ba‘al, and break down the house of Ba‘al, and appoint it for a latrine to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and break down the standing-pillar of Baal, and break down the house of Baal, and appoint it for a draught-house unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_kings/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And they will lay waste the images of Baal, and they will lay waste the house of Baal, and they will set it for a sink even to this day.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_kings/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />tore down the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, as it remains today.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the temple of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And they broke down the image of Baal and demolished the house of Baal and made it a public toilet-room to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_kings/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he threw down the statue of Baala and they threw down the house of Baala, and they made it the place of a bathroom until today.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_kings/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_kings/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And they tore down the pillars of Baal, and made his house a draught-house until this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/10-27.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=3675" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/10.htm">Jehu Kills the Priests of Baal</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">26</span>They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. <span class="reftext">27</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5422.htm" title="5422: way·yit·tə·ṣū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To pull down, break down. A primitive root; to tear down.">They also demolished</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4676.htm" title="4676: maṣ·ṣə·ḇaṯ (N-fsc) -- A pillar, stump. Feminine participle of natsab; something stationed, i.e. A column or; by analogy, an idol.">the sacred pillar</a> <a href="/hebrew/1168.htm" title="1168: hab·bā·‘al (Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Baal -- a heathen god. The same as ba'al; Baal, a Phoenician deity.">of Baal.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5422.htm" title="5422: way·yit·tə·ṣū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To pull down, break down. A primitive root; to tear down.">Then they tore down</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">the temple</a> <a href="/hebrew/1168.htm" title="1168: hab·ba·‘al (Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Baal -- a heathen god. The same as ba'al; Baal, a Phoenician deity.">of Baal</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: way·śi·mu·hū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp:: 3ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">and made</a> <a href="/hebrew/4280.htm" title="4280: lə·ma·ḥă·rå̄·ʾōṯ (Prep-l:: N-fp) -- A cloaca, cesspool, latrine. From the same as chere'; a sink.">it into a latrine,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">which it is to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">this day.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-24.htm">Exodus 23:24</a></span><br />You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-3.htm">Deuteronomy 12:3</a></span><br />Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/16-32.htm">1 Kings 16:32-33</a></span><br />First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/6-25.htm">Judges 6:25-28</a></span><br />On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. / Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.” / So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-4.htm">2 Chronicles 34:4-7</a></span><br />Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. / Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. / Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/18-40.htm">1 Kings 18:40</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/23-4.htm">2 Kings 23:4-6</a></span><br />Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. / Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. / He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Hosea 10:5-8</a></span><br />The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile. / Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols. / Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/19-13.htm">Jeremiah 19:13</a></span><br />The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-4.htm">Zephaniah 1:4-5</a></span><br />“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests— / those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/5-2.htm">1 Samuel 5:2-5</a></span><br />carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue. / When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place. / But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/27-9.htm">Isaiah 27:9</a></span><br />Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/6-4.htm">Ezekiel 6:4-6</a></span><br />Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. / I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. / Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/19-19.htm">Acts 19:19</a></span><br />And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-23</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house to this day.</p><p class="hdg">brake down the image</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a></b></br> He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/23-7.htm">2 Kings 23:7-14</a></b></br> And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that <i>were</i> by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm">Leviticus 26:30</a></b></br> And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezra/6-11.htm">Ezra 6:11</a></b></br> Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/2-5.htm">Daniel 2:5</a></b></br> The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/3-29.htm">Daniel 3:29</a></b></br> Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_kings/18-35.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-11.htm">Brake</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-21.htm">Broke</a> <a href="/numbers/21-30.htm">Demolished</a> <a href="/revelation/18-6.htm">Draught</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Image</a> <a href="/mark/7-19.htm">Latrine</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-13.htm">Pulled</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-2.htm">Standing-Pillar</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-30.htm">Tore</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-10.htm">Used</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/11-11.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-28.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-18.htm">Brake</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-18.htm">Broke</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-15.htm">Demolished</a> <a href="/psalms/75-8.htm">Draught</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-30.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-6.htm">Image</a> <a href="/mark/7-19.htm">Latrine</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-14.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-7.htm">Pulled</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-4.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-2.htm">Standing-Pillar</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-12.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-3.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-14.htm">Tore</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-5.htm">Used</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-1.htm">Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab's sons to be beheaded</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-12.htm">At the shearing house he slays forty-two of Ahaziah's brothers</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-15.htm">He takes Jehonadab into his company</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-18.htm">By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-29.htm">Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins</a></span><br><span class="reftext">32. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-32.htm">Hazael oppresses Israel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">34. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/10-34.htm">Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, the worship of Baal was a recurring issue, leading the Israelites away from the worship of Yahweh. The destruction of this pillar by Jehu's forces was a decisive act to eradicate Baal worship from Israel, fulfilling the commandment against idolatry (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a>). This act also aligns with the Deuteronomic reform principles, which emphasized the exclusive worship of Yahweh and the removal of pagan influences (<a href="/deuteronomy/12-3.htm">Deuteronomy 12:3</a>).<p><b>Then they tore down the temple of Baal</b><br>The temple of Baal in Samaria was a center for idol worship and a symbol of the spiritual apostasy that had taken hold in the Northern Kingdom. Jehu's destruction of the temple was a fulfillment of his divine commission to eliminate the house of Ahab and the associated Baal worship (<a href="/2_kings/9-6.htm">2 Kings 9:6-10</a>). This act can be seen as a parallel to the cleansing of the temple by Jesus, who drove out the money changers (<a href="/john/2-13.htm">John 2:13-16</a>), symbolizing the removal of corruption and the restoration of true worship.<p><b>and made it into a latrine,</b><br>Turning the temple into a latrine was a deliberate act of desecration, ensuring that the site could never again be used for worship. This action symbolized the utter rejection and humiliation of Baal worship. It reflects the biblical theme of divine judgment against false gods and the futility of idolatry (<a href="/isaiah/44-9.htm">Isaiah 44:9-20</a>). The transformation of a sacred space into a place of waste underscores the complete and irreversible nature of Jehu's reforms.<p><b>which it is to this day.</b><br>The phrase "to this day" indicates that the author of 2 Kings was writing at a time when the effects of Jehu's actions were still evident. This serves as a historical marker, emphasizing the lasting impact of Jehu's purge of Baal worship. It also highlights the enduring nature of God's judgment against idolatry and the importance of faithfulness to Him. This phrase can be compared to the enduring nature of God's promises and covenants, as seen throughout Scripture (<a href="/genesis/17-7.htm">Genesis 17:7</a>, <a href="/psalms/105-8.htm">Psalm 105:8-10</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jehu.htm">Jehu</a></b><br>The king of Israel who was anointed to destroy the house of Ahab and eradicate Baal worship from Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/b/baal.htm">Baal</a></b><br>A Canaanite deity whose worship was prevalent in Israel, often associated with idolatry and apostasy.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/temple_of_baal.htm">Temple of Baal</a></b><br>A place of worship dedicated to Baal, representing the idolatrous practices that Jehu was commissioned to eliminate.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a></b><br>The capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, where the temple of Baal was located.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/destruction_of_baal_worship.htm">Destruction of Baal Worship</a></b><br>The event where Jehu and his men demolished the temple and made it a latrine, symbolizing the complete rejection and desecration of Baal worship.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/z/zeal_for_god's_honor.htm">Zeal for God's Honor</a></b><br>Jehu's actions demonstrate a fervent commitment to honoring God by removing idolatry. Believers are called to be zealous in upholding God's truth and purity in their lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/complete_rejection_of_idolatry.htm">Complete Rejection of Idolatry</a></b><br>The transformation of the temple into a latrine symbolizes the total rejection of false gods. Christians must identify and remove any form of idolatry or compromise in their lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>Jehu's mission was a fulfillment of God's judgment against Ahab's house and Baal worship. This reminds us of God's ultimate authority and justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolic_acts_of_repentance.htm">Symbolic Acts of Repentance</a></b><br>The destruction of the temple serves as a physical act of repentance and turning back to God. Believers should consider how they can demonstrate repentance in tangible ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/legacy_of_faithfulness.htm">Legacy of Faithfulness</a></b><br>The phrase "to this day" indicates the lasting impact of Jehu's actions. Our faithfulness can leave a lasting legacy for future generations.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/where's_jehu's_purge_evidence.htm">Where is the archaeological evidence for Jehu’s widespread purge and the destruction of the Baal temple in 2 Kings 10:27? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_did_jehu_do_about_baal_worship.htm">What did Jehu do about Baal worship?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_2_kings_10_1-11_justify_killing.htm">How does 2 Kings 10:1-11 reconcile mass slaughter with the broader biblical prohibition against murder?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_endorse_jehu's_violence.htm">Why does God apparently endorse Jehu's violent actions in 2 Kings 10:30, when other passages condemn such bloodshed?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(27) <span class= "bld">The image of Baal.</span>--Again the word is <span class= "ital">pillar</span>, which in this case is the conical pillar of stone representing the Baal himself. The wooden pillars of <a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm" title="And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.">2Kings 10:26</a> probably symbolised companion deities (<span class= "greekheb">???????? ????????</span>) of the principal idol.<p><span class= "bld">Made it a draught house.</span>--By way of utter desecration. (Comp. <a href="/ezekiel/6-11.htm" title="Thus said the Lord GOD; Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.">Ezekiel 6:11</a>; <a href="/daniel/2-5.htm" title="The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you will not make known to me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.">Daniel 2:5</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Unto this day.</span>--On the bearing of this phrase, see the Introduction to the Books of Kings.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 27.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And they brake down the image of Baal</span>; rather, <span class="accented">they brake in pieces the pillar of Baal</span>. The representation of Baal, the main <span class="accented">stele</span> of the temple, being of stone or metal, could not be destroyed by fire, and was therefore broken to pieces (comp. <a href="/2_kings/23-14.htm">2 Kings 23:14</a>). <span class="cmt_word">And brake down the house of Baal</span> - <span class="accented">i.e.</span> partially ruined it, but still left portions of it standing, as a memorial of the sin and of its punishment - a solemn warning, one would have thought, to the people of the capital - <span class="cmt_word">and made it a draught-house unto this day</span>; made it, <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, "a depository for all the filth of the town" (Stanley); comp. <a href="/ezra/6-11.htm">Ezra 6:11</a>; <a href="/daniel/2-5.htm">Daniel 2:5</a>; <a href="/daniel/3-29.htm">Daniel 3:29</a>; and for the word "draught" in this sense, see <a href="/matthew/15-17.htm">Matthew 15:17</a>. Such a use was the greatest possible desecration. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_kings/10-27.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">and they demolished</span><br /><span class="heb">וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yit·tə·ṣū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5422.htm">Strong's 5422: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull down, break down</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the [sacred] pillar</span><br /><span class="heb">מַצְּבַ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(maṣ·ṣə·ḇaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4676.htm">Strong's 4676: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something stationed, a column, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Baal.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבָּ֑עַל</span> <span class="translit">(hab·bā·‘al)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1168.htm">Strong's 1168: </a> </span><span class="str2">Baal -- a heathen god</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Then they tore down</span><br /><span class="heb">וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(way·yit·tə·ṣū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5422.htm">Strong's 5422: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull down, break down</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the temple</span><br /><span class="heb">בֵּ֣ית</span> <span class="translit">(bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Baal</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבַּ֔עַל</span> <span class="translit">(hab·ba·‘al)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1168.htm">Strong's 1168: </a> </span><span class="str2">Baal -- a heathen god</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and made</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·śi·mu·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> </span><span class="str2">Put -- to put, place, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">it into a latrine,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(lə·mō·w·ṣā·’ō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4163.htm">Strong's 4163: </a> </span><span class="str2">A family descent, a sewer</span><br /><br /><span class="word">which it is to</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this day.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיּֽוֹם׃</span> <span class="translit">(hay·yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_kings/10-27.htm">2 Kings 10:27 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_kings/10-27.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 10:27 They broke down the pillar of Baal (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 10:26"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:26" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/10-28.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 10:28"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10:28" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>