2 Kings 23:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he brake down{H5422} the houses{H1004} of the sodomites,{H6945} that were in the house{H1004} of Jehovah,{H3068} where the women{H802} wove{H707} hangings{H1004} for the Asherah.{H842}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he brake down{H5422}{(H8799)} the houses{H1004} of the sodomites{H6945}, that were by the house{H1004} of the LORD{H3068}, where the women{H802} wove{H707}{(H8802)} hangings{H1004} for the grove{H842}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And he brake downe the whorekepers houses which were by the house of the LORDE, wherin the wemen made mansions for the groue.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

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

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And he brake downe the celles of the male stewes that were by the house of the Lorde, where the women woue hanginges for the idol groue.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that `are' in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 He took away the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.
  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 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.
  • Exod 35:25-26 : 25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought what they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
  • Gen 19:4-5 : 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
  • 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 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 34:33 : 33 And 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.
  • Ezek 8:14 : 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    80%

    6 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    77%

    8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    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 22:46
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12 And 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.

    13 The 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.

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

    15 Moreover, 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 And 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.

    20 And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 24:7
    73%

    7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 23:17
    73%

    17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 34:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4 And 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.

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

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

    7 And 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 33:15
    71%

    15 And 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.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    71%

    1 Now 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.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    71%

    19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

  • 2 Kgs 10:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them.

    27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    70%

    4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

  • Deut 23:17
    70%

    17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • Lam 2:7
    70%

    7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

  • Judg 6:30
    70%

    30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has cast down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the grove that was by it.

  • 2 Kgs 11:18
    70%

    18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 7:30
    70%

    30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Ezek 23:47
    70%

    47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

  • Jer 23:14
    70%

    14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

  • Mic 1:7
    70%

    7 And all her carved images will be beaten to pieces, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay desolate: for she gathered it from the wages of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

  • Jer 50:40
    69%

    40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD; so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live there.

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

  • Ezek 23:39
    69%

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Deut 29:23
    69%

    23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

  • Lev 14:45
    69%

    45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

  • Deut 7:5
    69%

    5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Amos 4:11
    69%

    11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 52:13
    69%

    13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire:

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • Ezek 9:7
    69%

    7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    69%

    9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire.

  • Lam 4:6
    69%

    6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

  • Gen 13:13
    68%

    13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

  • Jer 19:13
    68%

    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.