SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:25
Y después que acabaron ellos de hacer el holocausto, Jehú dijo a los de su guardia y a los capitanes: Entrad, y matadlos; que no escape ninguno. Y los hirieron a cuchillo; y los dejaron tendidos los de la guardia y los capitanes, y fueron hasta la ciudad del templo de Baal,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:25
Verse 25. As soon as he had made an end of offering] Had Jehu been a man of any conscientious principle in religion, he would have finished the tragedy before he offered the burnt- offering; but to a man of no religion, the worship of Jehovah and of Baal are alike. If he prefers either, it is merely as a statesman, for political purposes. To the guard and to the captains] µyllw µyxrl leratsim uleshalashim; to the couriers or runners, and the shalashim, the men of the third rank, those officers who were next to the nobles, the king and these being only their superiors. The runners were probably a sort of light infantry.
The city of the house of Baal.] Does not this mean a sort of holy of holies, where the most sacred images of Baal were kept? A place separated from the temple of Baal, as the holy of holies in the temple of Jehovah was separated from what was called the holy place.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering , etc.] The chief of the priests of Baal, whose office it was to do this service: that Jehu said to the guard, and to the captains, go in and slay them, let none come forth ; this he said to the eighty men set to guard the temple, and the officers over them; and perhaps they might also have a reinforcement, since such a number seems scarcely sufficient to destroy so many as were here; though indeed it must be considered they were armed men: and they smote them with the edge of the sword ; put them all to death: and the guard and the captains cast them out ; those that were slain, as the Targum, their dead bodies; but it can hardly be thought they would be at the trouble of casting them out, when the house was to be pulled down, and made a jakes (a common sewer or dung house) of, as follows; rather therefore it should be rendered, they cast or flung themselves with great force, and in great haste, as Kimchi, and rushed out of the temple, being eager to do as follows: and went to the city of the house of Baal ; to pull it down; to some city near Samaria where was a temple of Baal; or rather this may design the buildings about the temple of Baal, in which the priests and their families lived, and were so large that they might be called a city of themselves.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-28 - Is thine heart right? This is a question we should often put to ourselves. I make a fair profession, have gained a reputation amon men, but, is my heart right? Am I sincere with God? Jehonadab owne Jehu in the work, both of revenge and of reformation. An upright hear approves itself to God, and seeks no more than his acceptance; but in we aim at the applause of men, we are upon a false foundation. Whethe Jehu looked any further we cannot judge. The law of God was express that idolaters were to be put to death. Thus idolatry was abolished for the present out of Israel. May we desire that it be rooted out of ou hearts.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 ככלתו 3615 לעשׂות 6213 העלה 5930 ויאמר 559 יהוא 3058 לרצים 7323 ולשׁלשׁים 7991 באו 935 הכום 5221 אישׁ 376 אל 408 יצא 3318 ויכום 5221 לפי 6310 חרב 2719 וישׁלכו 7993 הרצים 7323 והשׁלשׁים 7991 וילכו 1980 עד 5704 עיר 5892 בית 1004 הבעל׃ 1168
