2 Kings 10:18

Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

10:18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped ¹  Baal a little; Jehu will worship ²  him with great devotion. ³ 

2 Kings 10:26-28

10:26 They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. 10:27 They demolished ⁴  the sacred pillar of Baal and ⁵  the temple of Baal; it is used as ⁶  a latrine ⁷  to this very day. 10:28 So Jehu eradicated Baal worship ⁸  from Israel.

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¹ tn Or “served.

² tn Or “serve.”

³ tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”

⁴ tn Or “pulled down.”

⁵ tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

⁶ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

⁷ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

⁸ tn Heb “destroyed Baal.”