1 Kings 15:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God; 3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; 4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders. 5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 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. 8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree; 24 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.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images: 19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers: 3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you. 4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever? 6 But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
  • Jude 1:7 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13 And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

    14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    15 He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

    3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Chr 15:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    80%

    11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22 Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

    4 He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

    6 And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

    7 He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    69%

    5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
    4 verses
    69%

    12 And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

    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.

    14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

    15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

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

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

    3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24 So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

    9 In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

    12 So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

    12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6 Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    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.)

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    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,

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    67%

    18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,