Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 10:25

25 And it came to pass assoon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offerings , that Jehu said to the guard, and to the captains , Go in, and slay them, let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword, and the guard and the captains cast them out , and went to the city of the house of Baal .

i. e. The Chief Priest of Baal. See 2 Chron. 23. 17.

So far he suffered them to proceed; either, because till then they were not all come into the House: Or, because having been taken in the very act of gross Idolatry, their Destruction was more just and reasonable.

i. e. To the Fourscore men, and their Officers.

i. e. Cast their Carcasses out of the City. But that was not proper work for the Guard: nor could they so soon have done it; nor would they stay to do it, when they were going in haste to other work; nor indeed was it necessary to be done; because they intended to pull down the House, and Bury them in its Ruines, and turn it into a Draught-house, as it follows. This Word therefore is, and may be joyned with the next; and both rendred, They went hastily and eagerly; properly, they flung themselves out (Hiphil for Hithpahel, which is not unusual in the Hebrew Language) and went. The like Expression is used, Esth. 6. 12. hasted, Heb. pushed himself on, or flung himself, i. e. went with great haste; and in the Greek Text, Mark 14. 72.

Either, 1. To some City near to Samaria, where another eminent Temple of Baal was Erected. But this seems not to agree with the context, there being but one House or Temple of Baal mentioned, both in the foregoing and following Verses. Or rather, 2. To some Buildings belonging to this House of Baal, which may be here called the City; either for some particular reason now unknown: or, because they were very numerous and capacious. For as there were divers Chambers and Rooms built without the Temple, belonging to it, for the use of the Priests, and Levites, &c. So it may probably be conceived, That this famous Temple of Baal had many such Buildings; in some of which, the Priests of Baal, or of the Groves, (whereof there were great numbers belonging to the Kings Court, 1 King. 18. 19.) peradventure might dwell; and others of them might be for divers uses belonging to the House, and Service of Baal. And into these Buildings the Guard might go, and that hastily, to [illegible: 1+ letters]urprize, and kill those Inferior Ministers of Baal, who were there employed in preparing things for the Sacrifices which were to be Offered; or, in other Services belonging to that House, or that Solemnity.

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