1 Kings 14:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ There were also sodomites (male cult prostitutes) in the land. They did all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Moreover, the consecrated workers in the land did detestable things, just like those nations that the LORD had removed among the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ There were also the effeminate in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

1 Kings 14:24 Cross References

Genesis 19:5

and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”

1 Kings 15:12

He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

1 Kings 22:46

The remnant of the illicit priests who remained from the days of his father Asa, he purged from the land.

2 Kings 23:7

He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.

Leviticus 18:26

But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the native-born or the alien who resides among you

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Deuteronomy 23:17

“None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.

Deuteronomy 23:18

You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house and started pounding on the door. They said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him.”