20. Then Jehu ordered, “Proclaim a day of worship in honour of Baal!” The proclamation was made,
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!”
25. As soon as Jehu had presented the offerings, he said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them all; don't let anyone escape!” They went in with drawn swords, killed them all, and dragged the bodies outside. Then they went on into the inner sanctuary of the temple,
26. brought out the sacred pillar that was there, and burnt it.
27. So they destroyed the sacred pillar and the temple, and turned the temple into a latrine — which it still is today.
28. That was how Jehu wiped out the worship of Baal in Israel.
29. But he imitated the sin of King Jeroboam, who led Israel into the sin of worshipping the gold bull calves he set up in Bethel and in Dan.
30. The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done to Ahab's descendants everything I wanted you to do. So I promise you that your descendants, down to the fourth generation, will be kings of Israel.”