2 Kings 23:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes, which were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove [tent] hangings for the Asherah [shrines].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Common English Bible

⁷ The king tore down the shrines for the consecrated workers that were in the LORD’s temple, where women made woven coverings for Asherah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Also, he destroyed the small places of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women were weaving something like little houses in the sacred grove.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

2 Kings 23:7 Cross References

1 Kings 14:24

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drave out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12

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

1 Kings 22:46

And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

2 Chronicles 34:33

And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Ezekiel 16:16

And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colours, and playedst the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

Ezekiel 8:14

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

Hosea 2:13

And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense; when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves go apart with whores, and they sacrifice with the harlots: and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

Numbers 25:1

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab:

Deuteronomy 23:17

There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.