1 Kings 15:12

World English Bible (2000)

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove 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; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies. 4 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

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

    13Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

    14But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

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

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:

    3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

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

    16Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt 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.

    18He 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 that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

    7He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet 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, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

    4They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

    5He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

    6[So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

    7He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and 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 in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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

    12The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

    14He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

    50They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24Asa slept with his fathers, and 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%

    2He 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%

    2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] 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%

    2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar 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 made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

    12A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    11"Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above 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 walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they 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 Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,