2 Kings 10:27 - Exposition

And they brake down the image of Baal ; rather, they brake in pieces the pillar of Baal . The representation of Baal, the main stele of the temple, being of stone or metal, could not be destroyed by fire, and was therefore broken to pieces. And brake down the house of Baal — i.e. partially ruined it, but still left portions of it standing, as a memorial of the sin and of its punishment—a solemn warning, one would have thought, to the people of the capital— and made it a draught-house unto this day ; made it, i.e; "a depository for all the filth of the town" (Stanley); comp. Ezra 6:11 ; Daniel 2:5 ; Daniel 3:29 ; and for the word "draught" in this sense, see Matthew 15:17 . Such a use was the greatest possible desecration.