2 Kings 23:7
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.
2 Kings 23:7 in other translations
| BSB | He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah. |
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| WEB | He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the LORD’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. |
| ASV | And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. |
What does 2 Kings 23:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 23:4-14
What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his dwelling-place was, such abominations should be found. Josiah had reigned eighteen years, and had himself set the people a good example, and kept up religion according to the Divine law; yet, when he came to search for…
2 Kings 23:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 23:7
- Ezekiel 16:16
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
- 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- Exodus 35:25-26
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.
- Genesis 19:4-5
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
- Ezekiel 8:14
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.
- Romans 1:26-27
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- 2 Chronicles 34:33
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 departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.
- Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
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Context
- 2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
- 2 Kings 23:7
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.
- 2 Kings 23:8
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 Beer–sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings 23:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Además derribó las casas de los sodomitas que estaban en la casa de Jehová, en las cuales tejían las mujeres pabellones para el bosque. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il démolit les maisons des prostituées qui étaient dans la maison de l’ Éternel, et où les femmes tissaient des tentes pour l’ashère. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er riß die Häuser der Buhler nieder, die sich im Hause Jehovas befanden, worin die Weiber Zelte webten für die Aschera. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Destruxit quoque ædiculas effeminatorum quæ erant in domo Domini, pro quibus mulieres texebant quasi domunculas luci. |