26And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Jehu, pushing on his work, is here, I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab , 2 Kgs. 10:15 , 16 . This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling little with the business of it (as appears by his charge to his posterity, which they religiously observed 300 years after, not to drink wine nor dwell in cities, Jer. 35:6), yet, upon this occasion, went to meet…
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