Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it an out-house to this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.


Cross References

Ezra 6:11

Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon, and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

Daniel 2:5

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me. If ye do not make the dream and the interpretation of it known to me, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is

1 Kings 16:32

And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Ye shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. Thou shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou be snared by it, for it is an abomination to LORD thy God.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made. For to those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:7-14

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 34:3-7

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven im

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