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2 Kings 10:26

Baal

24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”

25 When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

27 They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.

28 Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,

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BSB
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
KJV
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
WEB
They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them.
ASV
And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
DARBY
and brought forth the columns out of the house of Baal, and burned them;
BLB
And they brought out the pillars of the house of the Baal and burned them.
ÅB
Og de bar ut støttene i Ba'als hus og brant dem opp,
OTB
Og de brakte ut minnesteinene fra Ba’als hus og brente dem.
B1930
Og de bar ut støttene i Ba'als hus og brente dem op,

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 14:23

    They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

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  • 2 Kings 3:2

    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

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  • 2 Samuel 5:21

    There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.

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  • 2 Kings 19:18

    They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

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