1 Kings 14:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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  • Deut 23:17 : 17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.
  • Gen 19:5 : 5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
  • Rom 1:24-27 : 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: 25 Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: 27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

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  • 46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

  • 7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

  • 17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

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    22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

    23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

  • 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

  • 12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

  • 27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

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    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

    9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

  • 4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

  • 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

  • 26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

  • 14 And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.

  • 4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • 25 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

  • 2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

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    26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

    27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

  • 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

  • 22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • 14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

  • 11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

  • 50 They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

  • 2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

  • 11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

  • 12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

  • 40 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • 13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

  • 23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

  • 13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • 6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

  • 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

  • 18 As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • 17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • 4 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

  • 14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • 29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.