Discovery Box2 Kings 10:18 
ContextJehu 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
Context10:26 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.
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.”
