Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

King James Version

And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.

Holman Bible

and tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine—which it is to this day.

International Standard Version

They also cut down the pillar to Baal, tore apart Baal's temple, and turned it into a latrine and it remains that way today.

A Conservative Version

And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it an out-house to this day.

American Standard Version

And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

Amplified

They also tore down the sacred pillar of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it into a latrine [forever unclean] to this day.

Bible in Basic English

The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

Darby Translation

and they broke down the column of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will lay waste the images of Baal, and they will lay waste the house of Baal, and they will set it for a sink even to this day.

King James 2000

And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a refuse dump unto this day.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.

Modern King James verseion

And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal and made it a sewer-house until this day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they brake the image of Baal, and brake the house of Baal, and made a privy house thereof, unto this day.

NET Bible

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

New Heart English Bible

They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

The Emphasized Bible

and they brake down the pillars of Baal, - and brake down the house of Baal, and appointed it for a sewer-house - until this day.

Webster

And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day.

World English Bible

They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

Youngs Literal Translation

and break down the standing-pillar of Baal, and break down the house of Baal, and appoint it for a draught-house unto this day.

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Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

the image
מצּבה 
Matstsebah 
Usage: 32

of Baal
בּעל 
Ba`al 
בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 81
Usage: 81

and brake down
נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

and made
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

it a draught house
מוצאה 
Mowtsa'ah 
Usage: 2

References

Context Readings

Jehu Purges The Baal Worshipers

26 They brought out the sacred pillars of the house of Baal and burned them. 27 They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. 28 Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel.


Cross References

Ezra 6:11

And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this.

Daniel 2:5

The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.”

1 Kings 16:32

So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:30

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:7-14

He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 34:3-7

For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images.

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