2 Kings 10:21
Context10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 1
2 Kings 10:26-27
Context10:26 They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. 10:27 They demolished 2 the sacred pillar of Baal and 3 the temple of Baal; it is used as 4 a latrine 5 to this very day.
1 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
2 tn Or “pulled down.”
3 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
4 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
5 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.”