2 Kings 10:26-27

10:26 They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. 10:27 They demolished ¹  the sacred pillar of Baal and ²  the temple of Baal; it is used as ³  a latrine ⁴  to this very day.

[10:27]  ¹ tn Or “pulled down.”

[10:27]  ² tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

[10:27]  ³ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

[10:27]  ⁴ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”