Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 10:26
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
26. And they brought forth the images ] R.V. pillars. On this word see above, 2Ki 3:2 note. The same change is also made by R.V. in the next verse. The LXX. has the singular in this verse ( ) and the plural in 27. As the worship of Astarte was combined with that of Baal, we can understand that in such a splendid temple as that which Ahab and Jezebel had erected, there would be more pillars (or sacred obelisks) than one, though one would be specially known as ‘the pillar of Baal’.
and burnt them ] So that these more numerous pillars must have been of wood. Probably they were of less size than the chief obelisk.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The images – Or pillars of wood. The Phoenician pillar idols were mere columns, obelisks, or posts, destitute of any shaping into the semblance of humanity (compare 1Ki 14:23 note).
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Heb. it, i.e. the collection of the images, or each of them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burnt them. Lesser images, the images of other deities, or what were placed as decorations of the temple.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
They then fetched the columns ( ) out of the temple and burned them (the suffix in refers to the plural taken as an abstract noun, as in 2Ki 3:3; cf. Ewald, 317, a.). They then broke in pieces the , column of Baal, i.e., the real image of Baal, probably a conical stone dedicated to Baal, whereas the , which were burned, were wooden columns as or of Baal (see Movers, Phniz. i. p. 674).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(26) The images.Rather, the pillars; which were of wood, and had a sacred significance. (Comp. Hos. 3:4.) In primitive times a pillar was the distinguishing mark of a holy place. Idolatrous pillars were commanded to be destroyed (Exo. 23:24), but most critics think that pillars to Jehovah were quite allowable till the time of Hezekiah or Josiah, to which they assign the Book of Deuteronomy. (Comp. Deu. 16:21-22.) At any rate, the prophet (Isaiah) gives an implicit sanction to the erection of a sacred pillar in Egypt (Cheynes Note on Isa. 19:19). The LXX. has the singular here ( ) and the plural in the next verse. The Syriac has the singular statue in both.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
26. Brought the images These are supposed to have been wooden statues or pillars consecrated to Baal or some of his associate deities.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
Ver. 26. And they brought forth the images, and burned them. ] So they did here in King Edward VI’s reign; and the same day Musselburgh field in Scotland was won by the English.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
images, or statues.
them = each of them.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
images: Heb. statues, 1Ki 14:23, *marg.
and burned them: 2Ki 19:18, 2Sa 5:21
Reciprocal: 1Ki 16:32 – the house of Baal 2Ki 3:2 – Baal 2Ki 11:18 – went 2Ch 28:2 – For he walked 2Ch 34:4 – graves
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 10:26-27. The images of the house of Baal A collection of different images. The image of Baal The chief image, which they worshipped more than the rest. And brake down the house of Baal As, no doubt, they did the rest of the houses of Baal in Israel. And made it a draught-house A sink or common shore; that the remembrance of it might be blotted out or made infamous. Thus was the worship of Baal quite destroyed, at least for the present, out of Israel, though it had once prevailed so far, that there were but seven thousand, of all the thousands of Israel, that had not bowed the knee to Baal. Thus will Jehovah, sooner or later, triumph over all the gods of the heathen.