1 Kings 15:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
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“He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 15:12 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 11:7At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- 1 Kings 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 15:3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
- 1 Kings 22:46He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
- 1 Kings 22:47And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.
- 2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
- Ezekiel 20:18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Zechariah 1:2“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
- Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
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