2 Kings 23:7

Good News Translation

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.)

Cross References

1 Kings 14:24

Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.

1 Kings 15:12

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.

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.

2 Chronicles 34:33

King Josiah destroyed all the disgusting idols that were in the territory belonging to the people of Israel, and as long as he lived, he required the people to serve the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Ezekiel 16:16

You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.

Ezekiel 8:14

So he took me to the north gate of the Temple and showed me women weeping over the death of the god Tammuz.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.

Hosea 4:13

At sacred places on the mountaintops they offer sacrifices, and on the hills they burn incense under tall, spreading trees, because the shade is so pleasant! “As a result, your daughters serve as prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 4:14

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Numbers 25:1

When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.

Deuteronomy 23:17

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