Devine Scripture

2 Kings 23:7

2 Kings chapter 23 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

v.7This passage

v.8And 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 Beer-sheba; and he brake 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

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

  • 1 Kings 15:12

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

  • 1 Kings 14:24

    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.

  • 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.

  • Exodus 35:25

    And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

  • Ezekiel 16:16

    And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

  • Genesis 19:4

    But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;