1 Kings 22:46

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 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 15:12 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 1:26-27 : 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 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 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 15:11-14
    4 verses
    85%

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

    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.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    77%

    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 22:45
    77%

    45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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 15:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    70%

    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 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    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;

  • 1 Kgs 15:22-24
    3 verses
    70%

    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.

    23 Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

    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 15:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:47
    69%

    47 At that time there was no king in Edom;

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    69%

    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 17:6
    69%

    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.

  • Jer 49:18
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-34
    3 verses
    69%

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

    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

    34 Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 16:11
    69%

    11 Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    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,

  • Deut 23:17
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:28
    67%

    28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    67%

    3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

  • Jer 50:40
    67%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:6
    67%

    6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    67%

    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 15:36
    67%

    36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings 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.

  • Ezek 16:50
    66%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:8-9
    2 verses
    66%

    8 Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.

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

  • 2 Chr 34:6
    66%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:19
    66%

    19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    66%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    66%

    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.

  • Jude 1:7
    66%

    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.

  • Luke 17:29
    66%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    66%

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

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    66%

    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;

  • 2 Kgs 16:19
    66%

    19 Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?