1 Kings 15:12

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He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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  • 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 14:2-5 : 2 He removed the foreign altars and the high places, shattered the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment. 4 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him. 5 He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 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.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols. 19 'I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and obey them.
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. 3 Therefore, say to them: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to me,' declares the Lord of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of Hosts. 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever? 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, 'As the Lord of Hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and our deeds, so He has done to us.'
  • 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 Pet 1:18 : 18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    46The 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?

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

    13He also removed his mother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. Asa cut down her idol and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    14The high places were not removed, yet Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

    15He brought into the house of the LORD the sacred things his father had dedicated, along with his own sacred gifts of silver, gold, and utensils.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2He removed the foreign altars and the high places, shattered the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

    3He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.

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

    16King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene image for Asherah. Asa cut down her obscene image, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    17Although the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his life.

    18He brought into the house of God the silver, gold, and articles that he and his father had dedicated.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    80%

    11Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his forefather David had done.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24There 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6He brought out the Asherah pole from the house of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to ashes, and threw the ashes on the graves of the common people.

    7He tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, where the women wove coverings for Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22Then King Asa issued a proclamation to all Judah with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones and timber Baasha had used to fortify Ramah. With these materials King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.

    4In his presence, they tore down the altars of the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols, crushing them into powder, and he scattered the dust over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

    6He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around.

    7He tore down the altars and the Asherah poles, smashed the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1When all this had been completed, all the Israelites who were present went out to the towns of Judah and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished the high places and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them completely. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities, each to their own property.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    69%

    5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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

    12The king tore down the altars that were on the roof of Ahaz's upper chamber, the ones the kings of Judah had made. He also destroyed the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. He removed them from there, ground them to dust, and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

    13The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

    14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with human bones.

    15Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

    50They became haughty and committed abominations before me; therefore, I removed them as I saw fit.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

    3He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    68%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33Josiah 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger. He did to them just as he had done at Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    68%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

    12Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until there was no one left alive, for they were crushed before the Lord and His army. They carried off a very large amount of plunder.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and mother; he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

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

    11Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness and causing Judah to stray.

    12Then Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah, which said, "This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: Because you have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah..."

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6Then King Asa mobilized all Judah. They carried away the stones and timber Baasha had used to fortify Ramah, and Asa used them to fortify Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26He acted in the most detestable way by following idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    11'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    67%

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    67%

    18Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace and placed them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, with this message: