²⁵ It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, “Come and kill them; let no man go free!” So they put them to the sword,^[a] and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal. ²⁶ They brought out the stone pillars of the temple of Baal and burned them.^{[b] 27} So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.