And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
- BSB He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
- 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 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kgs 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Deut 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- Gen 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
- Rom 1:26–27For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
- 1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
- Judg 19:22Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
- 1 Cor 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
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