2 Kings 10:27

_AND JEHU WENT, AND JEHONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB, INTO THE HOUSE OF BAAL, AND SAID UNTO THE WORSHIPPERS OF BAAL, SEARCH, AND LOOK THAT THERE BE HERE WITH YOU NONE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, BUT THE WORSHIPPERS OF BAAL ONLY._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

15-28 Is thine heart right? This is a question we should often put to ourselves. I make a fair profession, have gained a reputation among men, but, is my heart right? Am I sincere with God? Jehonadab owned Jehu in the work, both of revenge and of reformation. An upright heart approves itself to God, and seeks no more than his acceptance; but if we aim at the applause of men, we are upon a false foundation. Whether Jehu looked any further we cannot judge. The law of God was express, that idolaters were to be put to death. Thus idolatry was abolished for the present out of Israel. May we desire that it be rooted out of our hearts....

Verse 27. _MADE IT A DRAUGHT HOUSE_] A place for human excrement; so all the _versions_ understand it. Nothing could be more degrading than this; he made it a _public necessary_....

AND THEY BRAKE DOWN THE IMAGE OF BAAL - The other images, it appears, were not images of Baal, but of inferior deities. The image of Baal, which was “broken down,” and not burned, would seem to have been of stone, perhaps erected in front of the temple....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 10:1 THE REIGN OF JEHU OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 10:1 The revolution initiated by the destruction of Joram and Jezebel is here traced through its second and its third stages. The immediate question, after Joram's death, was—Would any member of his family rise up as a claimant of the throne, and dispute the succession with Jehu? Ahab had seventy male descendants, all of them resident in Samaria: would there be any one among their number bold enough to come forward and assert his hereditary fight? Jehu regarded this as the most pressing and imminent danger, wherefore his first step was to challenge such action, and either pr

AND THEY BROKE DOWN THE TEMPLE OF BAAL,.... Which some take to be Belus, others Saturn, others the sun, which seems most probable: AND BROKE DOWN THE HOUSE OF BAAL; his temple, demolished it: AND MADE IT A DRAUGHT HOUSE UNTIL THIS DAY; a common sewer, a jakes; a fit place for dunghill gods to be thrown into, and an idol temple to be turned into....

2. JEHU'S JUDGMENTS, BAAL-WORSHIP DESTROYED, AND HIS DEATH CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The judgment upon the house of Ahab (2 Kings 10:1)_ 2. The relations of Ahaziah slain (2 Kings 10:12; 2 Chronicles 22:8) 3. Jehonadab spared (2 Kings 10:15) 4. The Baal worship destroyed (2 Kings 10:18) 5. Jehu's record (2 Kings 10:29) 6. Israel cut short ...

DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB AND OF THE BAAL WORSHIPPERS. The same source is continued, but 2 Kings 10:28 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 Jezreel in baskets (2 Kings 10:7). A further massacre of all Ahab's adherents at Jezreel followed, and of forty-two of the family of Ahaziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 10:13). Jehu next ...

DRAUGHT HOUSE. dunghill, middens, _latrince._...

_they brake down the image of Baal_ As the verb is the same as that used immediately afterwards for the breaking down of the house, we may be almost certain that this chief object of worship was of stone. The verb is constantly employed of pulling down buildings. The LXX. omits the next clause, -And brake down the house of Baal". _a draught house_ The word -draught" is found again in Matthew 15:17; Mark 12:19. Cf. also Burton, _Anatomy_, p. 165, -Muck hills, _draughts_, sinks, where any carcasses or carrion lies". For the idea cf. Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5; Dan