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

They prepared to retire for the night when suddenly all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.

There were also male (cult) prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah practiced all the disgusting practices done by the nations that Jehovah forced out of the Israelites' way.

He banished perverted persons from the land. He removed those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods. He removed all the idols his fathers had made.

He banished all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan altars who were still left from the days of his father Asa.

Josiah got rid of all the disgusting idols throughout Israelite territory. He required all people in Israel to serve Jehovah their God. As long as he lived, they did not stop following Jehovah the God of their ancestors.

For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

Where

All the skilled women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they made.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the gate of Jehovah's house toward the north; and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz (the god).

You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur.

I will punish her for the days in which she burned incense to the Baals, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, said Jehovah.

General references

All the skilled women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they made.

You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur.