Thematic Bible: A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)


Thematic 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;

and he put away the male devotees out of the land, - and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel, - neither shall there be, a male devotee, of the sons of Israel.

Moreover, the rest of the male devotees who remained in the days of Asa his father, he consumed out of the land.

Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land, - they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.