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1 Kings 14:24

What does 1 Kings 14:24 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Kings 14:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.

Context

v.23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

v.24This passage

v.25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 19:5

    and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

  • Judges 19:22

    As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

  • 2 Kings 23:7

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

  • 1 Kings 22:46

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

  • 1 Kings 15:12

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

  • Deuteronomy 23:17

    There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

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