2 Chronicles 23:17

2 Chronicles 23:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
• New International Version (NIV)All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And all the people went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down. They broke in pieces its altars and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Context of 2 Chronicles 23:17

15So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house: and they slew her there. 16And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah’s people. And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 19And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in.

2 Chronicles 23:17 word by word

וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל־הָעָ֤ם בֵּית־הַבַּ֙עַל֙ וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֔הוּ וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֥יו וְאֶת־צְלָמָ֖יו שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ וְאֵ֗ת מַתָּן֙ כֹּהֵ֣ן הַבַּ֔עַל הָרְג֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י הַֽמִּזְבְּחֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

• peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• wentבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• Baalבַּעַלba‛al · BaalH1168
• downנָתַץnâthats · to tearH5422
• altarsמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
• imagesצֶ֫לֶםtselem · imageH6754
• slewהָרַגhârag · to killH2026
• Mattanמַתָּןmattân · MattanH4977
• priestכֹּהֵןkôhên · priestH3548

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 23:17

• 2 Chronicles 34:4And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
• 2 Kings 10:25And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, 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.
• 2 Kings 11:18And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Jehovah.
• 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
• Deuteronomy 12:3and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.
• Isaiah 2:18And the idols shall utterly pass away.
• Zechariah 13:2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
• Deuteronomy 13:5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
• 1 Kings 18:40And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 23:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Mattan the priest - The Targum will not prostitute the term priest, but calls him כומרא cumera, priestling.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17The agreement included promises between the king and the people, between the Lord and the king, and between the Lord and the people. The promises with the Lord involved stopping the worship of Baal.Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 23:17

• Mattan
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Baal
• Covenant
• Athaliah
• Genealogy
• Jehoash; Joash
• Jehoiada
• Mattan

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 23

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings