He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
1 Kings 15:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made. More versionsKing 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. |
He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)
The remnant of the illicit priests who remained from the days of his father Asa, he purged from the land.
He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.
“None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.
You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.