2 Kings 10:26-28
sacred pillar <04676> [images. Heb. statues.]
1Ki 14:23 *marg:
burned <08313> [and burned them.]
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.
