2 Kings 10:21

10:21

invitations .......... came ....... arrived <0935> [And they came.]

Baal ........... temple ... Baal <01168 01004> [the house of Baal.]

filled <06310 04390> [full from one end to another. or, so full that they stood mouth to mouth.]

2 Kings 10:26-27

10:26

sacred pillar <04676> [images. Heb. statues.]

burned <08313> [and burned them.]

10:27

demolished ... sacred pillar <04676 05422> [brake down the image.]

used as ... latrine <04163 07760> [made it a draught house.]

This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner.