1 Kings 15:12

Good News Translation

He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:3

He committed the same sins as his father and was not completely loyal to the Lord his God, as his great-grandfather David had been.

1 Kings 21:26

He committed the most shameful sins by worshiping idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the people of Israel advanced.)

1 Kings 22:46

He got rid of all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan altars who were still left from the days of his father Asa.

1 Kings 22:47

The land of Edom had no king; it was ruled by a deputy appointed by the king of Judah.

2 Kings 23:7

He destroyed the living quarters in the Temple occupied by the temple prostitutes. (It was there that women wove robes used in the worship of Asherah.)

Deuteronomy 23:17

“No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know what was paid to set you free from the worthless manner of life handed down by your ancestors. It was not something that can be destroyed, such as silver or gold;

Jude 1:7

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and the nearby towns, whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality and perversion: they suffer the punishment of eternal fire as a plain warning to all.