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Hebrew Names Version

1 Kings 15:12

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Asa;   Idolatry;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Maachah;   Rulers;   Sodomites;   Sodomy;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Idols;   Reforms, Religious;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baasha;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Baal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Asa;   Sodomites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Asa;   Baal (1);   Harlot;   Kings, the Books of;   Phoenice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   Fertility Cult;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prostitution;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Idolatry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sodomites ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baal;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Asa;   Chemosh;   Crime;   Harlot;   Male;   Sodomite;   Temple;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Asa;   Bastard;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
King James Version
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
English Standard Version
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
New Century Version
He forced the male prostitutes at the worship places to leave the country. He also took away the idols that his ancestors had made.
New English Translation
He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.
Amplified Bible
He expelled the male cult prostitutes (sodomites) from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers [Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam] had made.
New American Standard Bible
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
Contemporary English Version
He forced the prostitutes at the shrines to leave the country, and he got rid of the idols his ancestors had made.
Complete Jewish Bible
He rid the land of cult-prostitutes and removed all the idols his ancestors had made.
Darby Translation
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
Easy-to-Read Version
During Asa's time there were men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. Asa forced them to leave the country. He took away the idols that his ancestors had made.
George Lamsa Translation
And he put the Sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Good News Translation
He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.
Lexham English Bible
He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made.
Literal Translation
And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers made.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he remoued ye whoremongers out of the londe, and put downe all the Idols that his fathers had made.
American Standard Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Bible in Basic English
Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he toke away the male stewes out of the lande, and put away all the abhominable idols that his fathers had made.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
King James Version (1611)
And hee tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and remooued all the idoles that his fathers had made.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
English Revised Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Berean Standard Bible
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he took awey fro the loond men of wymmens condiciouns, and he purgide alle the filthis of idols, whiche his fadris maden.
Young's Literal Translation
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;
Update Bible Version
And he put away the homosexuals out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
World English Bible
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
New King James Version
And he banished the perverted persons [fn] from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
New Living Translation
He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
New Life Bible
He sent away the men from the land who sold the use of their bodies in their religion. He took away all the false gods his father had made.
New Revised Standard
He put away the male temple prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he put away the male devotees out of the land, - and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
Revised Standard Version
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

Contextual Overview

9 In the twentieth year of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el began Asa to reign over Yehudah. 10 Forty-one years reigned he in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Ma`akhah the daughter of Avishalom. 11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 Also Ma`akhah 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. 14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days. 15 He brought into the house of the LORD the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. 16 There was war between Asa and Ba`sha king of Yisra'el all their days. 17 Ba`sha king of Yisra'el went up against Yehudah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Yehudah. 18 Then 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 Ben-Hadad, the son of Tavrimon, the son of Hezyon, king of Aram, who lived at Dammesek, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sodomites: 1 Kings 14:24, 1 Kings 22:46, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, Jude 1:7

all the idols: 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:8, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Chronicles 14:2-5, Ezekiel 20:18, Ezekiel 20:19, Zechariah 1:2-6, 1 Peter 1:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:17 - sodomite 2 Kings 18:4 - brake 2 Kings 23:7 - the sodomites 2 Chronicles 14:3 - the high places Hosea 4:14 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Genesis 15:3
Avram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Genesis 15:5
The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Avram, "So shall your seed be."
Genesis 15:8
He said, "Lord GOD, whereby will I know that I will inherit it?"
Genesis 15:9
He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
He said to Avram, "Know for sure that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Sha'ul's head; and they got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen on them.
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
Acts 20:9
A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Sha'ul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took away the Sodomites out of the land,.... Which were in the times of Rehoboam, 1 Kings 14:24, and continued in his father's reign; those he took away, either by driving them out of the land, or by putting them to death according to the law of God, Leviticus 20:13 even as many of them as he had knowledge of, for some remained, see 1 Kings 22:46,

and removed all the idols that his fathers had made; or suffered to be made, as Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam, see 1 Kings 11:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 15:12. The sodomites — הקדשים hakkedeshim; literally, the holy or consecrated ones. See on 1 Kings 14:24.


 
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