²⁵ As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill^(A) them; let no one escape.”^(B) So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.

¹⁸ All the people of the land went to the temple^(A) of Baal and tore it down. They smashed^(B) the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest^(C) of Baal in front of the altars.

Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the Lord.