2 Kings 10:27

Baal

²⁵ And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

²⁶ And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.

²⁸ Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

²⁹ Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
WEB: They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
ASV: And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.
DARBY: and they broke down the column of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day.
BLB: And they broke down the pillar of the Baal and broke down the house of the Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

ÅB: og Ba'als egen støtte rev de ned; og Ba'als hus rev de ned og gjorde det til vannhuser, som er der den dag idag.
OTB: De rev også ned minnesteinen til Ba’al og rev ned Ba’als hus, og gjorde det til en latrine til denne dag.
B1930: og Ba'als egen støtte rev de ned; og Ba'als hus rev de ned og gjorde det til vannhuser, som er der den dag idag.

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Ezra 6:11
Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
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Daniel 3:29
Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
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Daniel 2:5
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
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1 Kings 16:32
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
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Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
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2 Chronicles 34:3–7
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
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