And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Parallel translations
- WEB They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
- BSB They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
- NKJV Then they broke down the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day.
- NASB They also tore down the memorial stone of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine as it is to this day.
- NLT They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.
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Quick answer
Baal's pillar and temple are demolished and the site turned into a latrine, a lasting humiliation. The false god is shown to be powerless and unclean.
Overview
Converting the temple into a public toilet expresses utter contempt for Baal and his worship. The phrase 'to this day' notes the desecration endured into the writer's time. The scene declares the impotence of idols against the living God, whose reign Christ will consummate by abolishing every rival power.
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- Ezra 6:11Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
- Dan 2:5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing 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 no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- 1 Kgs 16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
- Deut 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
- Lev 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- 2 Kgs 23:7–14And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- 2 Kgs 18:4He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Chr 34:3–7For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
- Deut 7:5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
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