1 Kings 15:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² 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)

¹² And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Common English Bible

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² And he took away the effeminate out of the land: and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

1 Kings 15:12 Cross References

1 Kings 15:3

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 21:26

He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)

1 Kings 22:46

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

1 Kings 22:47

There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

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.

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.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

Jude 1:7

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.