2 Kings 23:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

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.

He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

He removed from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.

So Josiah removed everything that was detestable from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Where

Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

So He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house, and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals
when she burned incense to them,
put on her rings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

General references

Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!