Verse 7

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 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.