And he walked in all the sins which his father did before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:12 - Revised Standard Version He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. Common English Bible 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 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 And he took away the effeminate out of the land: and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. |
And he walked in all the sins which his father did before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.
And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
“There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.