New discoveries made at the Tel Lachish National Park in Israel support the biblical account of King Jehu’s destruction of Baal worship in Israel. The record in 2 Kings 10 tells how Jehu’s soldiers demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people then used it as a latrine. Just such a latrine has now been found during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), complete with marks where the horns – a symbol of Baal – had been removed from the stone. Other artefacts backing the biblical record in 2 Kings have been uncovered at the same site.