^20 (A)“He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them, ^(A)“Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook ^(B)Kishon and ^(C)executed them there.

²⁵ Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them; let no one come out!” And they killed them with the edge of the sword; then the guards and the officers threw them out, and went into the ^[a]inner room of the temple of Baal.

¹⁸ And all the people of the land went to the ^(A)temple of Baal, and tore it down. They thoroughly ^(B)broke in pieces its altars and ^[a]images, and ^(C)killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And ^(D)the priest appointed ^[b]officers over the house of the Lord.