Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.
1 Kings 15:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He put away the sodomites (male cult prostitutes) out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers [Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam] had made or promoted. [I Kings 11:5-11; 14:22.] American Standard Version (1901) And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. Common English Bible He removed the consecrated workers from the land, and he did away with all the worthless idols that his predecessors had made. Catholic Public Domain Version And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he took away the effeminate out of the land: and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. |
Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.
He committed the most detestable acts by following idols as the Amorites had, whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.
He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.
‘No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.