And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
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Gill's Exposition
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images and temples being served thus in all places, throughout the land of Israel, where there were any.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images…
Barnes' Notes
And they brake down the image of Baal - The other images, it appears, were not images of Baal, but of inferior deities. The image of Baal, which was “broken down,” and not burned, would seem to have…
Adam Clarke
Made it a draught house - A place for human excrement; so all the versions understand it. Nothing could be more degrading than this; he made it a public necessary.
Jehu, pushing on his work, is here,
I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab, Kg2 10:15, Kg2 10:16. This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling little with…
Cambridge Bible
they brake down the image of Baal As the verb is the same as that used immediately afterwards for the breaking down of the house, we may be almost certain that this chief object of worship was of…
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