2 Kings 23:7

⁵ And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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.

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.

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.

⁹ Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
KJV: 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.
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.
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.
BLB: And he tore down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that [were] in the house of YHWH, where the women had woven houses for the Asherah.

ÅB: Han rev ned tempel-bolernes[^2] huser, som lå like ved Herrens hus, hvor kvinnene vevde småtelt for Astarte.
OTB: Han rev også ned husene til de mannlige kultprostituerte som var i Herrens hus, hvor kvinnene vevde hengsler for Ashera.
B1930: Han rev ned tempel-bolernes huser, som lå like ved Herrens hus, hvor kvinnene vevde småtelt for Astarte. / < 1KG 14, 24.>

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Cross references

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.
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1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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