Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another." — 2 Kings 10:21 (ASV)
Sent through all Israel. —The Vatican Septuagint adds, saying: “And now all his servants, and all his priests, and all his prophets, let no one be missing; because I make a great sacrifice. Whoever is missing shall not live.” This is another instance (compare 2 Kings 9:16) of the insertion in the text of a marginal note belonging to another place. The note preserves the reading of the first half of 2 Kings 10:19 according to another manuscript (See Thenius on this passage).
Was full from one end to another. —Right as to the sense. The figure is taken from a full vessel; as if we were to say, “The house was brimful.” The rim of a vessel was its mouth. The rim of the contents reached the rim of the vessel. Schulz explains “head to head” (compare the margin); Gesenius, “from corner to corner” (compare 2 Kings 21:16); Septuagint literally, στόμα εἰς στόμα “mouth to mouth.”