2 Kings 10:27 ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:18-28

The Slaughter Of All The Specific Worshippers of Baal In Samaria (2 Kings 10:18-28 ). That Jehu went far beyond what YHWH had required comes out here. Not satisfied with a thorough purge in Samaria, Jehu now turned his attention to the rest of the country. His purpose now was to root out all the foreign influence of Jezebel and her cult of the Phoenician Baal, and he performed his task meticulously and mercilessly, without giving any opportunity for repentance. This was not YHWH’s way. And by... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:1-36

2 Kings 10:1-Obadiah : . Destruction of the House of Ahab and of the Baal Worshippers.— The same source is continued, but 2 Kings 10:28-Obadiah : are from a Deuteronomist. The whole story is one of the most terrible in the OT, Ahab had a large family in Samaria. Jehu with a sort of rude chivalry invited the elders of the city to choose one of them as king, and to fight for the throne. But the cowardly rulers promised submission, and at Jehu’ s command sent the heads of the seventy sons to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 10:27

The image of Baal; the chief image, which they worshipped more than the rest. Brake down the house of Baal; and the like they did with the rest of the houses of Baal in Israel; as may be gathered both from the nature and reason of the thing, and from 2 Kings 10:28. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 10:18-28

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 10:19. But Jehu did it in subtilty—His subterfuge for the destruction of Baal’s priests and votaries must not be regarded as proof of Jehu’s attachment and loyalty to Jehovah, but because he knew these priests and prophets were adherents to Ahab’s dynasty, and would be unfriendly to his own. He used religion for his own guilty ends, as 2 Kings 10:29 proves. 2 Kings 10:22. Vestments for all the worshippers of Baal—These priestly vestments were white robes,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:1-36

Chapter 10Now Ahab who was the husband of this wicked woman Jezebel, who himself was extremely wicked, had seventy sons. Evidently Jezebel wasn't his only wife. Now these sons had grown up in Samaria and in Jezreel. And they had been brought up by the tutors, and they were more or less leaders in these communities. And in his letter he said, "Now you have with you the sons of Jehu. So you anoint whichever one that you want, gather together your men of war, and anoint whichever one you want to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 10:1-36

2 Kings 10:1 . Seventy sons, whose end was destruction, like the sons of Gideon, of Saul, and of David. The sure way to build up a house is equity, not polygamy. Jehu wrote letters. God gave him a high martial spirit to avenge the blood of his saints. Elevation to a great mind inspires dignity of sentiment, and majesty of style. 2 Kings 10:9 . Who slew all these? He was careful to associate the citizens, as well as the soldiers, in the total excision of Ahab’s house. It is rarely wise... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 10:27

2Ki 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. Ver. 27. And brake down the house of Baal. ] So Theodosius pulled down the idol temples, which Constantine had shut only, but Julian opened them again; and our Henry VIII demolished the abbeys and monasteries, using these words, Corvorum nidi sunt penitus disturbandi, ne iterum ad cohabitandum convolent: Those crows’ nests are to be utterly destroyed, that they be no... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 10:27

brake down the image: 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:7-2 Chronicles :, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, 1 Kings 16:32, 2 Chronicles 34:3-Judges : made it a draught house: This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner. Ezra 6:11, Daniel 2:5, Daniel 3:29 Reciprocal:... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Kings 10:27

And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.Draught-house — A sink or common shore. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:27

27. The image of Baal This was probably a vast molten statue of the god, erected outside of the temple, perhaps at the portal. A draught house A place of refuse and filth. The Masoretes have substituted a word which signifies sewers. Thus did Jehu terribly destroy these worshippers of Baal, mingling their blood with the sacrifices of the altar, and making the very site of their great temple a place of filth. This would cover the very name of Baal with infamy and reproach. read more