Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. New Living Translation There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites. English Standard Version and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. Berean Study Bible There were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. New American Standard Bible There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. King James Bible 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. Christian Standard Bible there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites. Contemporary English Version Even worse, they allowed prostitutes at the shrines, and followed the disgusting customs of the foreign nations that the LORD had forced out of Canaan. Good News Translation Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country. Holman Christian Standard Bible there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites. International Standard Version They even maintained male shrine prostitutes throughout the land, and imitated every detestable practice that the nations practiced whom the LORD had expelled in front of the Israelis. NET Bible 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. New Heart English Bible and there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel. GOD'S WORD® Translation There were even male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that the LORD had forced out of the Israelites' way. JPS Tanakh 1917 and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel. New American Standard 1977 And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. Jubilee Bible 2000 And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the Gentiles which the LORD had cast out before the sons of Israel. King James 2000 Bible And there were also male prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. American King James Version 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. American Standard Version and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel. Brenton Septuagint Translation And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel. Douay-Rheims Bible There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel. Darby Bible Translation and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel. English Revised Version and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drave out before the children of Israel. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible 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. Young's Literal Translation and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel. Study Bible Rehoboam's Reign in Judah…23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24There were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. Cross References Genesis 19:5 They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!" Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a cult prostitute. 1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made. 1 Kings 22:46 He banished from the land any male cult prostitutes who had remained from the days of his father Asa. 2 Kings 23:7 He also tore down the quarters of the male cult prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah. Treasury of Scripture 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. And there 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 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. Genesis 19:5 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. Lexicon There wereהָיָ֣ה (hā·yāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be even וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and male cult prostitutes קָדֵ֖שׁ (qā·ḏêš) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6945: A, sacred person, a, devotee, to licentious idolatry in the land. בָאָ֑רֶץ (ḇā·’ā·reṣ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land They imitated עָשׂ֗וּ (‘ā·śū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make all כְּכֹל֙ (kə·ḵōl) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every the abominations הַתּוֹעֲבֹ֣ת (hat·tō·w·‘ă·ḇōṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol of the nations הַגּוֹיִ֔ם (hag·gō·w·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts the LORD יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel had driven out הוֹרִ֣ישׁ (hō·w·rîš) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin before מִפְּנֵ֖י (mip·pə·nê) Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face the Israelites. בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son (24) Sodomites.--See 1Kings 15:12; 2Kings 23:7. There is a horrible significance in the derivation of this word, which is properly "consecrated," or "devoted;" for it indicates the license, and even the sanction, of unnatural lusts in those consecrated to the abominations of Nature-worship. The appearance of such in the land, whether Canaanites or apostate Israelites, is evidently noted as the climax of the infinite corruption which had set in, rivalling--and, if rivalling, exceeding in depth of wickedness--the abominations of the old inhabitants of the land. That such horrors are not incompatible with advance in knowledge and material civilisation, history tells us but too plainly. To find them sanctioned under cover of religious ritual marks, however, a lower depth still.Verse 24. - And there were also Sodomites [קָדֵשׁ, a collective noun = הַקְּדֵשִׁים (1 Kings 15:12) = consecrated persons or devotees, because they were set apart to the service of Astarte, the Dea Syria. It is clear from Deuteronomy 23:18 (Heb.) that male prostitutes are here spoken of, the name of the female being קְדֵשָׁה. The former is described in ver. 19 50.c. as a dog, the latter as a whore] in the land [cf. 1 Kings 15:12. It is highly probable that these infamous persons were of Canaanite or Phoenician origin (this being a Phoenician superstition, Movers, "Phoniz." 1:671), but it is somewhat precarious to found an assertion to that effect on these last words (as Bahr)], and [Heb. omits and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations [see Leviticus 18:20; Deuteronomy 18:9-12] which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. ["Here we see a reason for God's command, requiring the extirpation of the Canaanites" (Wordsworth).] 14:21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around us. The splendour of their temple, the pomp of their priesthood, and all the advantages with which their religion was attended, could not prevail to keep them close to it; nothing less than the pouring out the Spirit will keep God's Israel in their allegiance to him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine gold, and turns it into brass. 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