2 Kings 10:27

10:27 They demolished50 the sacred pillar of Baal and51 the temple of Baal; it is used as52 a latrine53 to this very day.

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50	tn Or “pulled down.”
51	tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
52	tn Heb “and they made it into.”
53	tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348–49 s.v. חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot*), “outhouses.”