King James Version
2 Kings 10:27 in the King James Version says “And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.”
2 Kings 10:27 · KJV
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal. the edge: Heb. the mouth
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. images: Heb. statues
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the image”
H4676something stationed, i.e., a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and made”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“unto this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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