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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 10:27 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
2Ki 10:27	Strong Concordance	And they brake down [05422] the image [04676] of Baal [01168], and brake down [05422] the house [01004] of Baal [01168], and made [07760] it a draught house [04163] [04280] unto this day [03117].
	King James	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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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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 been of stone, perhaps erected in front of the temple.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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 been of stone, perhaps erected in front of the temple.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Lastly, they destroyed the temple itself and made it למחראות, privies, for which the Masoretes have substituted the euphemistic מוצאות, sinks, as a mark of the greatest insult, many examples of which are to be met with among Oriental tribes (vid., Ezr 6:11; Dan 2:5, and Haevernick in loc.). - Thus Jehu exterminated Baal from Israel. This remark in Kg2 10:28 forms the introduction to the history of Jehu's reign, with which the last epoch in the history of the ten tribes begins.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Lastly, they destroyed the temple itself and made it למחראות, privies, for which the Masoretes have substituted the euphemistic מוצאות, sinks, as a mark of the greatest insult, many examples of which are to be met with among Oriental tribes (vid., Ezr 6:11; Dan 2:5, and Haevernick in loc.). - Thus Jehu exterminated Baal from Israel. This remark in Kg2 10:28 forms the introduction to the history of Jehu's reign, with which the last epoch in the history of the ten tribes begins.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Draught - house - A sink or common shore.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Draught - house - A sink or common shore.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
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.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

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.

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