1 Kings 14:24 “There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all…”

1 Kings 14:24

There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

World English Bible

There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

American Standard Version

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

There were also Sodomites in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

Darby Translation

and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

Bible in Basic English

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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Cross references

“And there”

Deuteronomy 23:17 1 Kings 15:12 2 Kings 23:7 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Kings 22:46 Genesis 19:5

Deuteronomy 23:17 · BSB

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

1 Kings 15:12 · BSB

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7 · BSB

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

1 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Kings 22:46 · BSB

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

Genesis 19:5 · BSB

They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

25In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

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