2 Kings 10:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Ba`al, and burned them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They brought out the pillars or obelisks of the house of Baal and burned them. American Standard Version (1901) And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. Common English Bible They brought the sacred pillar out of Baal’s temple and burned it. Catholic Public Domain Version and they took away the statue from the shine of Baal, and they burned it up Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it, |
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Also Ma`akhah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
He reared up an altar for Ba`al in the house of Ba`al, which he had built in Shomron.
All the people of the land went to the house of Ba`al, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the Kohen of Ba`al before the altars. The Kohen appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moshe had made; for to those days the children of Yisra'el did burn incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan 1.
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and the altars which Menasheh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
The king commanded Chilkiyah the Kohen Gadol, and the Kohanim of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Ba`al, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Yerushalayim in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beit-El.
He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Ba`al that his father had made.
They left their gods there; and David gave mitzvah, and they were burned with fire.
He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars throughout all Eretz-Yisra'el, and returned to Yerushalayim.
Therefore, by this the iniquity of Ya`akov will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.