And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burnt them. ] Lesser images, the images of other deities, or what were placed as decorations of the temple.
24
So they were all inside the temple to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty of his men outside the building and had warned them, “If you let anyone escape, you will pay for it with your own life.”
25
As soon as Jehu had finished sacrificing the burnt offering, he commanded his guards and officers, “Go in and kill all of them. Don’t let a single one escape!” So they killed them all with their swords, and the guards and officers dragged their bodies outside. Then Jehu’s men went into the innermost fortress of the temple of Baal.
26
They dragged out the sacred pillar used in the worship of Baal and burned it.
27
They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.
28
In this way, Jehu destroyed every trace of Baal worship from Israel.
Footnotes 1
[a].
As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads sacred pillars.