Verse 7

He tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, where the women wove coverings for Asherah.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.
  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 There were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed all the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  • Exod 35:25-26 : 25 Every skilled woman spun thread with her hands and brought what she had spun—blue, purple, crimson yarn, and fine linen. 26 All the women whose hearts were stirred with skill spun goat hair.
  • Gen 19:4-5 : 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot and said, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have relations with them."
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. 27 In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his might, and the wars he waged, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  • 2 Chr 34:33 : 33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he compelled everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
  • Ezek 8:14 : 14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.