1 Kings 15:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 And the Sodomites, which remayned in the dayes of his father Asa, he put cleane out of the land.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 And Asa did that was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 3 For he tooke away the altars of the strange gods and the hie places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues, 4 And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement. 5 And he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah the hie places, and the images: therefore the kingdome was quiet before him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Then did Salomon build an hie place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mountaine that is ouer against Ierusalem, and vnto Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And so did he for all his outlandish wiues, which burnt incense and offered vnto their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree. 24 There were also Sodomites in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 But I said vnto their children in the wildernes, Walke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers, neither obserue their maners, nor defile your selues with their idoles. 19 I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 The Lord hath bene sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Turne ye vnto me, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will turne vnto you, saith the Lord of hostes. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whome the former prophets haue cried, saying, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Turne you nowe from your euill wayes, and from your wicked workes: but they would not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lorde. 5 your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer? 6 But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commanded by my seruants ye Prophets, take holde of your fathers? and they returned, and sayd, As the Lord of hostes hath determined to doe vnto vs, according to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath hee dealt with vs.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature. 27 And likewise also the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and burned in their lust one toward another, and man with man wrought filthinesse, and receiued in themselues such recompence of their errour, as was meete.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in like maner as they did, committed fornication, and followed strange flesh, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    46And the Sodomites, which remayned in the dayes of his father Asa, he put cleane out of the land.

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

    13And he put downe Maachah his mother also from her estate, because shee had made an idole in a groue: and Asa destroyed her idoles, and burnt them by the brooke Kidron.

    14But they put not downe the hie places. Neuertheles Asas heart was vpright with the Lord all his dayes.

    15Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, & the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2And Asa did that was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

    3For he tooke away the altars of the strange gods and the hie places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues,

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

    16And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.

    17But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

    18Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    80%

    11And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lorde, that was before the porche of the Lorde.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, & all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lorde, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24There were also Sodomites in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And he brought out the groue from the Temple of the Lord without Ierusalem vnto the valley of Kedron, and burnt it in the valley Kedron, and stampt it to pouder, and cast the dust thereof vpon the graues of the children of the people.

    7And hee brake downe the houses of the Sodomites, that were in the house of the Lord, where the women woue hangings for the groue.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6And he lift vp his heart vnto the wayes of the Lorde, and he tooke away moreouer the hie places and the groues out of Iudah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted; they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, & King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, & departed not therefrom, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5And he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah the hie places, and the images: therefore the kingdome was quiet before him.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:

    4And they brake downe in his sight the altars of Baalim, and hee caused to cut downe the images that were on hie vpon them: he brake also the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images, & stampt them to pouder, & strowed it vpon the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them.

    5Also he burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars, and purged Iudah & Ierusalem.

    6And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules they brake all round about.

    7And when he had destroyed the altars and the groues, and had broken and stamped to pouder the images, and had cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1And when all these thinges were finished, all Israel that were found in the cities of Iudah, went out and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake downe the hie places, and the altars thorowout all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntil they had made an ende: afterwarde all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession, into their owne cities.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    69%

    5For Salomon followed Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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

    12And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the Kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord did the King breake downe, and hasted thence, & cast the dust of them in the brooke Kedron.

    13Moreouer the King defiled the hie places that were before Ierusalem and on the right hand of the mount of corruption (which Salomon the King of Israel had buylt for Ashtoreth the idole of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the idole of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abomination of the children of Ammon)

    14And he brake the images in pieces, & cut downe the groues and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Furthermore the altar that was at Beth-el, and the hie place made by Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne, both this altar and also the hie place, brake he downe, & burnt the hie place, and stampt it to powder & burnt the groue.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

    50But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

    3But walked in the way of ye kings of Israel, yea, and made his sonne to go through the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father; Iehoshaphat his sonne reigned in his steade.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2And he put garisons in all the strong cities of Iudah, and set bandes in the lande of Iudah and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    68%

    2And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, like the abominations of the heathen, who the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33So Iosiah tooke away al the abominations out of all the countreis that perteined to the children of Israel, & compelled all that were found in Israel, to serue the Lorde their God: so all his dayes they turned not backe from the Lord God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father, and declined not therefrom, but did that which was right in the eyes of the Lorde. Neuerthelesse the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred still and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19Iosiah also tooke away all the houses of the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the factes that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    68%

    2And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde after the abomination of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

    9And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

    12So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2And he wrought euill in the sight of the Lorde, but not like his father nor like his mother: for he tooke away the image of Baal that his father had made.

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

    11Moreouer hee made hie places in the mountaines of Iudah, and caused the inhabitants of Ierusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Iudah thereto.

    12And there came a writing to him from Elijah the Prophet, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehoshaphat thy father, nor in the wayes of Asa King of Iudah,

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6Then Asa the King tooke all Iudah, and caryed away the stones of Ramah and the tymber thereof, wherewith Baasha did builde, and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26For he did exceeding abominably in following idoles, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    11Because that Manasseh King of Iudah hath done such abominations, and hath wrought more wickedly then al that the Amorites (which were before him) did, and hath made Iudah sinne also with his idoles,

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    67%

    8And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    67%

    18Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, & the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,