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As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.
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Verse 25. Soldiers. Hebrew “runners, (or foot-guards, 3 Kennicott. 1:5,) and chief officers.” Exodus 14:7.—Out. Hebrew “cast out” their carcasses, or “rushed out (themselves) into the city,” which was styled “the temple of Baal;” or “penetrated into the fortress” and inmost recesses of that structure. Osiander.—We read of such a fortress. Judges 9:46. Bible.—In every city where there was a temple of Baal, the fabric and idols were demolished. Salien.
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