Parallel Verses

World English Bible

He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

New American Standard Bible

He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.

International Standard Version

He also demolished the temples of the cultic male prostitutes that had been operating in the LORD's Temple, where the women had been doing weaving for the Asherah.

A Conservative Version

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

American Standard Version

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Amplified

And he tore down the houses of the [male] cult prostitutes, which were at the house (temple) of the Lord, where the women were weaving [tent] hangings for the Asherah [shrines].

Bible in Basic English

And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

Darby Translation

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will break down the houses of the holy places, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove there houses for the image.

King James 2000

And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the idol pole.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah.

Modern King James verseion

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were by the house of Jehovah, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he brake down the cells of the male whores that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove little houses for the grove.

NET Bible

He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord's temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

New Heart English Bible

He broke down the living quarters of the temple prostitutes, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.

The Emphasized Bible

and he brake down the houses of the male devotees, which were in the house of Yahweh, - where the women did weave houses to the Sacred Stem;

Webster

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Youngs Literal Translation

And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he brake down
נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

the houses
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of the sodomites
קדשׁ 
Qadesh 
Usage: 6

that were by the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of the Lord

Usage: 0

where the women
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

ארג 
'arag 
Usage: 13

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

Context Readings

Josiah's Covenantal Reforms

6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. 7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 8 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 Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.



Cross References

1 Kings 14:24

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.

1 Kings 15:12

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Ezekiel 16:16

You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

Exodus 35:25-26

All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

Genesis 19:4-5

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

1 Kings 22:46

The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

2 Chronicles 34:33

Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Ezekiel 8:14

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

Hosea 2:13

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.

Romans 1:26-27

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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