1 Kings 15:12 “He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all…”

1 Kings 15:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

World English Bible

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

American Standard Version

And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

Darby Translation

And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

Young's Literal Translation

and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Bible in Basic English

Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

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Cross references

“the sodomites”

1 Kings 22:46 Jude 1:7 1 Kings 14:24 Romans 1:26 Romans 1:27

1 Kings 22:46 · BSB

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

Jude 1:7 · BSB

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Kings 14:24 · BSB

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.

Romans 1:26 · BSB

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:27 · BSB

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

“all the idols”

2 Chronicles 14:2–5 1 Peter 1:18 1 Kings 15:3 Zechariah 1:2–6 1 Kings 11:7 1 Kings 11:8

2 Chronicles 14:2–5 · BSB

And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

1 Peter 1:18 · BSB

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

1 Kings 15:3 · BSB

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

Zechariah 1:2–6 · BSB

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

1 Kings 11:7 · BSB

At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:8 · BSB

He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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

In context

11And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

13He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Read 1 Kings 15