He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
Parallel translations
- WEB The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
- KJV And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- NKJV And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.
- NASB And the remnant of the cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he eliminated from the land.
- NLT He banished from the land the rest of the male and female shrine prostitutes, who still continued their practices from the days of his father, Asa.
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Jehoshaphat removed the remaining cult prostitutes that his father Asa had not driven out, advancing reform.
Overview
He purged the land of the remnant of pagan cultic immorality tied to idolatrous worship. The act shows his commitment to obeying God's law and cleansing the land, building on Asa's earlier reforms. Such reform reflects genuine, if incomplete, zeal for holiness among Judah's better kings.
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- 1 Kgs 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kgs 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Deut 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- Gen 19:5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- Rom 1:26–27For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
- Judg 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- 1 Cor 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
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