2 Reyes 10:25

25 Apenas Jehú terminó de sacrificar la ofrenda quemada, les ordenó a sus guardias y oficiales: «¡Entren y mátenlos a todos! ¡Que no escape nadie!». Así que los guardias y oficiales los mataron a filo de espada y arrastraron los cuerpos fuera.
Luego los hombres de Jehú entraron en la fortaleza más recóndita
del templo de Baal

2 Reyes 10:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 10:25

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering
The chief of the priests of Baal, whose office it was to do this service:

that Jehu said to the guard, and to the captains, go in and slay them,
let none come forth;
this he said to the eighty men set to guard the temple, and the officers over them; and perhaps they might also have a reinforcement, since such a number seems scarcely sufficient to destroy so many as were here; though indeed it must be considered they were armed men:

and they smote them with the edge of the sword;
put them all to death:

and the guard and the captains cast them out;
those that were slain, as the Targum, their dead bodies; but it can hardly be thought they would be at the trouble of casting them out, when the house was to be pulled down, and made a jakes (a common sewer or dung house) of, as follows; rather therefore it should be rendered, "they cast" or "flung themselves" ^F21 with great force, and in great haste, as Kimchi, and rushed out of the temple, being eager to do as follows:

and went to the city of the house of Baal;
to pull it down; to some city near Samaria where was a temple of Baal; or rather this may design the buildings about the temple of Baal, in which the priests and their families lived, and were so large that they might be called a city of themselves.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (yklvyw) "et proripuerunt se", De Dicu.

2 Reyes 10:25 In-Context

23 Después Jehú entró al templo de Baal con Jonadab, hijo de Recab, y les dijo a los que veneraban a Baal: «Asegúrense de que aquí no haya nadie que adora al Señor
, solo los que rinden culto a Baal».

24 Así que estaban todos adentro del templo para ofrecer sacrificios y ofrendas quemadas. Ahora bien, Jehú había puesto a ochenta de sus hombres fuera del edificio y les había advertido: «Si dejan que alguno se escape, pagarán con su propia vida».

25 Apenas Jehú terminó de sacrificar la ofrenda quemada, les ordenó a sus guardias y oficiales: «¡Entren y mátenlos a todos! ¡Que no escape nadie!». Así que los guardias y oficiales los mataron a filo de espada y arrastraron los cuerpos fuera.
Luego los hombres de Jehú entraron en la fortaleza más recóndita
del templo de Baal

26 y sacaron a rastras la columna sagrada
que se usaba para rendir culto a Baal y la quemaron.

27 Destrozaron la columna sagrada, demolieron el templo de Baal y lo convirtieron en un baño público; y así quedó hasta el día de hoy.