He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
2 Kings 10:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and they tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine #– #which it still is today. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They broke down the pillars of Baal and the house of Baal, and made it [forever unclean] a privy to this day. American Standard Version (1901) And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day. Common English Bible They tore down Baal’s sacred pillar and destroyed Baal’s temple, turning it into a public restroom, which is what it still is today. Catholic Public Domain Version and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day. |
He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed its altars and images to pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest appointed guards for the Lord’s temple.
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for until then the Israelites were burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.
I also issue a decree concerning any man who interferes with this directive: Let a beam be torn from his house and raised up; he will be impaled on it, and his house will be made into a rubbish dump because of this offence.
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
The king replied to the Chaldeans, ‘My word is final: If you don’t tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb, and your houses will be made a rubbish dump.
Therefore I issue a decree that anyone of any people, nation, or language who says anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn limb from limb and his house made a rubbish dump. For there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.’
I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
Burn the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images.