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2 Kings 10:21-24 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

21. and Jehu sent word throughout all the land of Israel. All who worshipped Baal came; not one of them failed to come. They all went into the temple of Baal, filling it from one end to the other.

22. Then Jehu ordered the priest in charge of the sacred robes to bring the robes out and give them to the worshippers.

23. After that, Jehu himself went into the temple with Jonadab son of Rechab and said to the people there, “Make sure that only worshippers of Baal are present and that no worshipper of the Lord has come in.”

24. Then he and Jonadab went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings to Baal. He had stationed eighty men outside the temple and had instructed them: “You are to kill all these people; anyone who lets one of them escape will pay for it with his life!”

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