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2 Kings 10:18-28
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Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped[a] Baal a little; Jehu will worship[b] him with great devotion.[c] 19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests.[d] None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fails to appear will lose his life.” But Jehu was tricking them[e] so he could destroy the servants of Baal. 20 Then Jehu ordered, “Make arrangements for[f] a celebration for Baal.” So they announced it. 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.[g] 22 Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe,[h] “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them. 23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu[i] said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.”[j] 24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside gets away, you will pay with your lives!”[k]

25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard[l] and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there.[m] Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal.[n] 26 They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. 27 They demolished[o] the sacred pillar of Baal and[p] the temple of Baal; it is used as[q] a latrine[r] to this very day. 28 So Jehu eradicated Baal worship[s] from Israel.

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  1. 2 Kings 10:18 tn Or “served.
  2. 2 Kings 10:18 tn Or “serve.”
  3. 2 Kings 10:18 tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”
  4. 2 Kings 10:19 tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”
  5. 2 Kings 10:19 tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”
  6. 2 Kings 10:20 tn Heb “set apart”; or “observe as holy.”
  7. 2 Kings 10:21 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
  8. 2 Kings 10:22 tn Heb “and he said to the one who was over the wardrobe.”
  9. 2 Kings 10:23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  10. 2 Kings 10:23 tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, but only the servants of Baal.”
  11. 2 Kings 10:24 tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”
  12. 2 Kings 10:25 tn Heb “runners.”
  13. 2 Kings 10:25 tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.
  14. 2 Kings 10:25 tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (ʿir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (devir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (ʿad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”
  15. 2 Kings 10:27 tn Or “pulled down.”
  16. 2 Kings 10:27 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
  17. 2 Kings 10:27 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
  18. 2 Kings 10:27 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makharaʾot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חֶרֶא (khereʾ)/חֲרִי (khari), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsaʾot), “outhouses.”
  19. 2 Kings 10:28 tn Heb “destroyed Baal.”
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2 Kings 10:18-28
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18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

20 Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!”

So they proclaimed it. 21 Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. 22 He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!”

So he brought robes out to them. 23 Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

24 So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

25 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal. 26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

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