2 Kings 23:7

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

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  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.
  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.
  • Exod 35:25-26 : 25 Every woman who was skilled spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, 26 and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats’ hair.
  • Gen 19:4-5 : 4 Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house. 5 They shouted to Lot,“Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can take carnal knowledge of them!”
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 “I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the LORD.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.
  • 2 Chr 34:33 : 33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the LORD their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD God of their ancestors.
  • Ezek 8:14 : 14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the LORD’s house. I noticed women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    80%

    6He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    77%

    8He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

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

    23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    24There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    75%

    46He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

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

    12The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

    13The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

    14He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.

    15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.

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

    19Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the LORD. He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.

    20He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 24:7
    73%

    7(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the LORD’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
    73%

    12He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

  • 2 Chr 23:17
    73%

    17All the people went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

  • 2 Chr 34:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

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

    6In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

    7he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    71%

    15He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    71%

    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    71%

    11He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the LORD and led Judah away from the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    71%

    19They burned down the God’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.

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

    26They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

    27They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    70%

    4The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, and the guards to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. The king burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

  • Deut 23:17
    70%

    17Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

  • Lam 2:7
    70%

    7ז(Zayin) The Lord rejected his altar and abhorred his temple. He handed over to the enemy her palace walls; the enemy shouted in the LORD’s temple as if it were a feast day.

  • Judg 6:30
    70%

    30The men of the city said to Joash,“Bring out your son, so we can execute him! He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”

  • 2 Kgs 11:18
    70%

    18All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the LORD’s temple.

  • Jer 7:30
    70%

    30The LORD says,“I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.

  • Ezek 23:47
    70%

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

  • Jer 23:14
    70%

    14But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.

  • Mic 1:7
    70%

    7All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces; all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. I will make a waste heap of all her images. Since she gathered the metal as a prostitute collects her wages, the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.”

  • Jer 50:40
    69%

    40I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

  • Ezek 23:39
    69%

    39On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

  • Deut 29:23
    69%

    23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.

  • Lev 14:45
    69%

    45He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

  • Deut 7:5
    69%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • Amos 4:11
    69%

    11“I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Jer 52:13
    69%

    13He burned down the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 9:7
    69%

    7He said to them,“Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    69%

    9He burned down the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

  • Lam 4:6
    69%

    6ו(Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.

  • Gen 13:13
    68%

    13(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)

  • Jer 19:13
    68%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”