2 Re 10:25

25 E, come fu finita l’offerta dell’olocausto, Jehu disse ai soldati e ai capitani: "Entrate, uccideteli, e che non ne esca uno!" Ed essi li passarono a fil di spada; poi, soldati e capitani ne buttaron là i cadaveri, e penetrarono nell’edifizio del tempio di Baal;

2 Re 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 Re 10:25 In-Context

23 Allora Jehu, con Jehonadab, figliuolo di Recab, entrò nel tempio di Baal, e disse agli adoratori di Baal: "Cercate bene, e guardate che non ci sia qui con voi alcun servo dell’Eterno, ma ci sian soltanto degli adoratori di Baal".

24 E quelli entrarono per offrir dei sacrifizi e degli olocausti. Or Jehu aveva appostati fuori del tempio ottanta uomini, ai quali avea detto: "Colui che lascerà fuggire qualcuno degli uomini ch’io metto in poter vostro, pagherà con la sua vita la vita di quello".

25 E, come fu finita l’offerta dell’olocausto, Jehu disse ai soldati e ai capitani: "Entrate, uccideteli, e che non ne esca uno!" Ed essi li passarono a fil di spada; poi, soldati e capitani ne buttaron là i cadaveri, e penetrarono nell’edifizio del tempio di Baal;

26 portaron fuori le statue del tempio di Baal, e le bruciarono;

27 mandarono in frantumi la statua di Baal; e demolirono il tempio di Baal, e lo ridussero in un mondezzaio che sussiste anche oggidì.