He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to Adonai his God, like the heart of his father David.
1 Kings 15:12 - Tree of Life Version He also expelled the male prostitutes from 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. |
He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to Adonai his God, like the heart of his father David.
He did grossly loathsome acts in following idols just like all that the Amorites had done, whom Adonai had dispossessed before the children of Israel.
Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoshaphat along with his might that he showed and how he warred, are they not written in Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
He expelled from the land the cult prostitutes remaining from the days of his father Asa.
Then he tore down the quarters of the male cult prostitutes that had been in the House of Adonai, where the women had been weaving coverings for the Asherah.
Let him dwell with you in your midst, in the place he chooses within one of your town gates—the one that is good for him. You are not to mistreat him.
You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
In the same way as these angels, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them—having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after a different sort of flesh—are displayed as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.