2 Kings 10:27

they brake down the image of Baal As the verb is the same as that used immediately afterwards for the breaking down of the house, we may be almost certain that this chief object of worship was of stone. The verb is constantly employed of pulling down buildings. The LXX. omits the next clause, -And brake down the house of Baal".

a draught house The word -draught" is found again in Matthew 15:17; Mark 12:19. Cf. also Burton, Anatomy, p. 165, -Muck hills, draughts, sinks, where any carcasses or carrion lies". For the idea cf. Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29, -their houses shall be made a dunghill".

untothis day See above on 2 Kings 8:22. For the commands in the law to destroy the objects of heathen worship cf. Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 12:2-3, where a destruction like that described here is enjoined.