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2 Kings 23:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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You took some of your clothing and made colourful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!


He banished the male cult prostitutes  from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.


there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.  They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.


And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house, and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.


So Josiah removed everything that was detestable from all the lands belonging to the Israelites,  and he required all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the Lord, the God of their ancestors.


He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.


‘No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.


While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,  , the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.


They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.


I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.





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