2 Kings 23:7

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Summary

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.

The sodomites

Where

General references

Exodus 35:25

Ezekiel 16:16

Bible References

The sodomites

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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.

He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

Where

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord's house looking to the north; and there women were seated weeping for Tammuz.

And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

General references

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.