1 Kings 15:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

He took away the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 And the rest of the sodomites, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
  • 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 the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves. 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to obey the law and the commandment. 5 He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 The LORD has been very displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    46And the rest of the sodomites, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

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

    13Also, he removed Maachah his mother from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the brook Kidron.

    14But the high places were not removed; nevertheless, Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

    15He brought into the house of the LORD the things his father had dedicated, and the things he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

    3For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.

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

    16And also concerning Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

    18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    80%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15And he removed the foreign gods and the idol 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 cast them out of the city.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

    7And he broke down the houses of the prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6And his heart was uplifted in the ways of the LORD; moreover, he took away the high places and groves from Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted, and they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used to build it. King Asa used them to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images.

    4And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

    6And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

    7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    69%

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

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

    12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

    13The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

    14And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

    50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24Asa slept with his fathers; he was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    68%

    2But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they did not depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    68%

    2And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

    9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

    12So the LORD struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

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

    11Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

    12Elijah the prophet sent him a letter, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of David your father, says: Because you have not followed the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or Asa king of Judah,

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6Then King Asa took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timber thereof, with which Baasha was building; and he built with them Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    11'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done more wickedly than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols:

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    67%

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    67%

    18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,