KJV King James Version
And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
WEB World English Bible
and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 14
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
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וְגַם־H1571 · gamalsoקָדֵ֖שׁH6945 · qa.deshmale cult prostituteהָיָ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beבָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetעָשׂ֗וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doכְּכֹל֙H3605 · kolallהַתּוֹעֲבֹ֣תH8441 · to.e.vahabominationהַגּוֹיִ֔םH1471 · goynationאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichהוֹרִ֣ישׁH3423 · ya.rashto possess: possessיְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDמִפְּנֵ֖יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeבְּנֵ֥יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פH3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.2 Kings 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.Genesis 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.Judges 19:22[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.Romans 1:24-27Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
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