brake down the image: 2Ki 18:4, 2Ki 23:7-14; Lev 26:30; Deu 7:5, Deu 7:25; 1Ki 16:32; 2Ch 34:3-7
made it a draught house: This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner. Ezr 6:11; Dan 2:5, Dan 3:29